At a glance
- Location
- Hybrid · Austin, TX
About Cloudflare
- 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.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. 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. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- Available Locations: Austin, TX (US)
About the role
- Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer for Browser Isolation to build the Chromium-based browsing engine, remote rendering and streaming technology, and distributed services.
- Engineers work at the intersection of systems programming, distributed systems, and security, collaborating on browser changes, service orchestration, observability, and build infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Own well-scoped features and improvements from design and implementation through testing, rollout, and production follow-up.
- Develop and maintain C++ code in the Chromium-based browser, and contribute across distributed services and systems components written in Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
- Debug failures across browser processes, Linux hosts, and distributed services using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling tools.
- Improve session reliability, startup time, interactive latency, and resource efficiency, and validate improvements with measurements.
- Write maintainable code, automated tests, and clear design notes, and participate in constructive code and design reviews.
- Collaborate with teammates and partner teams, communicate trade-offs and blockers, and incorporate feedback.
- Participate in the team’s production on-call rotation after onboarding, and contribute to incident mitigation and follow-up improvements.
Requirements
- Experience delivering and maintaining production software, with practical C++ proficiency and an understanding of memory ownership, resource lifetimes, and concurrency.
- Linux/UNIX fundamentals, including processes, threads, networking, and tools for diagnosing system behavior.
- Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience developing or operating distributed systems, with an understanding of service-to-service communication, timeouts, retries, partial failure, and basic consistency trade-offs.
- Ability to navigate an unfamiliar codebase, break a defined problem into deliverable steps, and test correctness and failure cases.
- A systematic approach to debugging and performance analysis, using evidence to form and test hypotheses.
- Clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and a willingness to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, and the rest of the stack.
Preferred qualifications
- Browser engines, Chromium, browser sandboxing, or security-sensitive systems.
- Low-latency streaming, graphics, remote computing, or other real-time systems.
- Container and workload orchestration, including Nomad or Kubernetes, and service discovery.
- Experience using Rust for systems programming or distributed services.
- Go or TypeScript; WebRTC, Skia, WebAssembly, or WebGL.
- Production observability, capacity planning, incident response, or build and release infrastructure.
Workplace
- May require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Skills
- C++
- Rust
- Go
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare Workers
- Nomad
- Consul
- WebRTC
- Skia
- WebAssembly
- WebGL
- Chromium
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- Linux
- UNIX
- Kubernetes
