Available Locations: Austin, TX | Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA | New York, NY | Washington, D.C.

About the Role

Cloudflare is building a brand new way of running globally distributed compute for both CPU and GPU workloads, and we need a strong Systems Engineer well-versed in Linux systems and network programming to join this effort. Our edge network spans the world and lets us treat the entire network as a compute resource to build ultra-low latency applications. This is the core of how we ship great new products every year — and this team is taking this way of building, and growing it into a platform of its own with both internal and external use cases.

This team works on some of the most challenging compute problems at Cloudflare — secure sandboxing of GPU and AI workloads, high throughput network data plane where every millisecond counts, distributed routing control plane.

Skills & Technologies

We are looking for engineers with battle-tested experience in Linux systems and network programming. Come help build something new and transformative for the company that nearly 20% of the internet already depends on.

Here are the technologies and problems we face today

• Machine level virtualization and security with Firecracker, gVisor and QEMU
• Machine level scheduling and process management with containerd, cgroups, and KVM - memory sharing, CPU throttling, etc
• Networking and routing in Linux
• High level of proficiency with Linux is a must
• Strong familiarity with Golang or the ability to acquire it quickly
• Experience with eBPF is valuable
• Experience with Rust (Firecracker & rust-vmm) valuable but not necessary
• Inner-datacenter scheduling with HashiCorp Nomad

If all or most of this sounds interesting to you, and you're ready to build and be challenged with a great team working on new platforms, please apply.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000.
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave