Network Software Engineer

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.

Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time e join us!

Available Locations:
Austin, Lisbon, London

Hiring will be focused on those residing within the greater Austin, TX, London, UK, & Lisbon, Portugal metro areas. It will be a hybrid role, with the expectation of 2 days per week in the office.

We're hiring Software Engineers at all levels. This is a single pipeline position.

About the team

The Magic Cloud Networking team builds an orchestration framework that empowers customers to take public cloud resources (e.g., AWS / Azure / GCP) and securely connect them to Cloudflare’s global data‑center footprint. Working with public cloud networking resources provides unique challenges—each cloud models networking very differently, customers can modify resources out-of-band of our orchestration system (“shadow IT operations”), resources can fail in opaque and varied ways outside of our control, etc..

To solve these issues, our orchestration platform must be resilient and scalable, while also affording flexibility to the unique constraints of each cloud. Powering this orchestration framework are a set of Go and Rust‑based microservices running in our core data‑centers, leveraging Cloudflare’s infrastructure excellence.

We are a team of engineers who obsess over building reliable services which leverage Cloudflare’s unique architecture and global network footprint.

You can read more about what we work on here:

As a software engineer on the Magic Cloud Networking team, you will contribute to features that shape Cloudflare One’s use of multi‑cloud networking. You will build solutions that improve performance, scalability, manageability, and security of customer cloud footprints as well as connect them to our global network. This work requires close collaboration with other teams while leveraging frameworks and libraries that power many Cloudflare products.

Our technology stack includes Go, Rust, Open Tofu, Public Clouds (e.g., AWS / Azure / GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and Prometheus. We're looking for determined, curious, empathetic engineers to join our team!

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience

• Programming experience in Go or Rust
• Familiarity with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking; i.e, VPCs, transit gateways, BGP and GRE tunnels
• Familiarity with network engineering and protocols used in data center switching and routing as well as Internet routing - BGP, BFP, OSPF, MPLS, etc
• Experience building network orchestration platforms
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
• Able to work across teams and create common, sustainable solutions
• Creative, open‑minded, collaborative problem solver
• Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication

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