Software Engineer, Cloudflare Network Interconnect

As a member of the team you will build and extend the systems that provision, monitor, and orchestrate private network interconnects at scale. You will collaborate with Product Management, Network Engineering, and Infrastructure teams on ambitious initiatives to connect enterprise customers directly to Cloudflare's global network.

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

Understanding of IP networking fundamentals: BGP, Layer 3 routing, and how physical and virtual interconnect technologies work (cross-connects, VLANs, overlay tunnels).

Experience building, deploying, and debugging distributed systems.

Experience participating in an on-call rotation for services with direct customer impact.

Willingness to adopt and integrate AI tools and systems into your workflow.

Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Bonus Points

Hands-on experience with BGP configuration, route policy, or peering operations.

Experience building provisioning or automation systems for network infrastructure.

Familiarity with network inventory and IPAM systems (e.g., NetBox).

Experience with cloud provider networking (AWS Direct Connect, GCP Partner Interconnect, Azure ExpressRoute).

Knowledge of GRE, VXLAN, or other overlay/tunnel technologies.

Experience with Kubernetes-based service deployments and CI/CD pipelines.

Experience with telemetry/observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch).

Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code completion, codebase analysis, log/data exploration) in a professional setting.

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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