# Systems Engineer, Network Protocols & Distributed Systems

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €54,000 - €75,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

We're looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team helping shape the future of the Internet. You'll build and operate systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale, migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy, measure and improve protocol performance across real-world traffic, contribute to open source and industry standards, and learn from and work alongside some of the leading engineers in this space.

## Responsibilities

- Build and operate systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale

- Migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy

- Measure and improve protocol performance across real-world traffic

- Contribute to open source and industry standards

- Learn from and work alongside some of the leading engineers in this space

## Requirements

- Solid systems programming experience (Rust, C, or similar)

- Ability to thrive in complex technical domains and enjoy learning new things

- Care about building reliable, secure, and performant software

- Motivated by impact , technical, operational, and on the Internet itself

- Come from a background that's underrepresented in tech , we value diverse perspectives

## Benefits

- Flexible work hours

- Take-what-you-need vacation

- RSUs

- ESPP

- Meaningful technical challenges every day

- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter spending accounts, fertility and family forming benefits, on-demand mental health support, and employee assistance program

- Financial benefits, including short and long term disability insurance, life and accident insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan, and employee stock participation plan

- Time off, including flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- C
- systems programming
- HTTP
- TLS
- network protocols

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