Software Engineer, Network Firewall

Cloudflare, Inc

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXAtlanta, GA
Posted
36 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Network Firewall

Software Engineer, Network Firewall As a Software Engineer on the team, you will develop new features, improve performance, and increase the scalability of Network Services products. You will evolve the Network Firewall and related security capabilities across both north-south and east-west network architectures while managing demanding throughput and latency requirements. The role involves building, deploying, and operating systems on a large edge network to solve complex problems in high-performance network security. Key technical requirements include experience with Go or Rust, L3 and L4 networking protocols, and low-latency userspace packet processing using Linux kernel primitives like netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, and network namespaces. You will also work with RESTful APIs, distributed data pipelines, and performance optimization for high-throughput systems to address critical security challenges such as DDoS mitigation, rate limiting, and threat intelligence integrations.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and deploy new features for Network Firewall and security capabilities across global network architectures.
  • Improve performance and scalability of high-throughput, latency-sensitive Network Services products.
  • Build and operate distributed systems on a large-scale edge network.
  • Implement low-latency userspace packet processing using Linux kernel networking primitives like eBPF and netfilter.
  • Design and integrate RESTful APIs and backend systems for network security tools.
  • Manage large-scale distributed data pipelines from initial structuring to efficient querying and analysis.
  • Perform debugging, profiling, and performance optimization for high-traffic network infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, and highly distributed systems.
  • Systems-level programming experience with Go and/or Rust.
  • Expertise in L3 and L4 networking protocols; L2 experience is also valuable.
  • Experience building high-performance network security products like firewalls, IDS/IPS, or DDoS mitigation.
  • Experience with low-latency userspace packet processing and Linux kernel networking primitives like eBPF and netfilter.
  • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines for structuring, querying, and analysis.
  • Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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