# Software Engineer - Network Platforms

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet.

The Network Platforms team contributes to Traffic Management functions at Cloudflare, optimizing the flow of traffic into, through, and from Cloudflare's global network.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build and extend various systems that carry traffic end-to-end on the egress path of Cloudflare network, starting at the host server Linux kernel, integrating with network hardware dataplane, and interconnecting to adjacent networks.

Responsibilities:

- Build and extend systems for traffic management on the egress path of Cloudflare network

- Work with Linux kernel network stack development, particularly with eBPF

- Collaborate with engineers across the company, from operations teams to customer-facing product teams

- Solve problems of massive scale and significance, shaping the future of reliability and performance on the Internet

Requirements:

- Systems-level programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, C, or C++

- Solid grasp of BGP and internet routing

- Experience implementing, deploying, and debugging mission-critical distributed systems

- Strong collaboration and communication skills

Bonus Points:

- Familiarity with vendor switching SDKs

- Experience with SR-MPLS, sFlow, BGP-LS & PCE protocols

- Experience writing packet-processing software (e.g., eBPF at TC or XDP, DPDK)

- Participation in an on-call rotation

We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux kernel network stack development
- eBPF
- BGP
- internet routing
- distributed systems
- Go
- Python
- Rust
- C
- C++

### Nice to have
- vendor switching SDKs
- SR-MPLS
- sFlow
- BGP-LS
- PCE protocols
- packet-processing software
- on-call rotation

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