# Senior Software Engineer - Network Connectivity

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Linux Networking, Http, Tls, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, Postgres, Grafana, Git
**Posted:** 2026-06-02

> As a Senior Software Engineer on the Egress team, you will be a key technical contributor to a cutting-edge network software infrastructure. You will design, document, write code, and manage production deployments, working with various engineering teams to translate requirements into new capabilities.

## Job Description

## Role Responsibilities

* Make daily progress on assigned engineering tasks, such as designing systems, writing specs, writing and pushing code via git, writing release plans for complex changes, rolling out production releases and working with other teams to coordinate system actions
* Participate in daily and ad-hoc team meetings to share progress and collaborate
* Participate in the team’s on-call schedule to ensure uptime of our production systems
* Investigating customer issues that are escalated to the Egress team for triage and resolution
* Responding to questions from other teams in the Egress team’s internal, public chat room
* Using AI-powered tools and systems as part of your daily workflow to analyze and extend codebases, introspect production systems and datasets, and accelerate problem-solving

## Role Requirements

### Must-Have Skills

* Programming experience in Go or Rust and a desire to improve your skills in both.
* A solid grasp of networking protocols in Layers 3 and 4 of the OSI Model.
* Knowledge of HTTP, TLS, and CDN networks.
* Experience in implementing secure and highly-available distributed systems.
* Strong ability to debug issues in complex systems.
* Strong collaboration and communication skills.
* Experience/interest in HTTP networking and VPN technologies.
* Experience/interest in network performance monitoring and tuning.
* Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your engineering workflow.

### Bonus Points

* Knowledge of TCP/IP and Internet routing.
* Professional systems-level programming experience in Rust.
* Experience building tools and APIs.
* Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging large-scale distributed systems
* Experience participating in an on-call rotation.
* Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code completion, codebase analysis, log/data exploration) in a professional setting.

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