Senior Software Engineer - ZTC

About Us 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: Lisbon, London, Austin About the team The Zero Trust Connectivity team builds the hub that connects Cloudflare One and Zero Trust products such as Cloudflare WAN, Cloudflare One Client, Cloudflare Tunnels, Gateway and Workers VPC. Powering this hub is a set of Rust-based services operating on every one of the data-centers that Cloudflare runs. These services route all of Cloudflare One traffic end to end. By leveraging Cloudflare's incredible infrastructure and programming languages such as Rust, this critical service is safe, performant and secure. As Cloudflare Zero Trust set of features evolves, this team is responsible for evolving these hub services to deliver those new capabilities while guaranteeing scalability and reliability as top priority. We are a team of engineers who obsess over building reliable services which leverage Cloudflare's unique architecture and global network footprint. You can read more about what we work on here: • https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-one/ • https://blog.cloudflare.com/from-ip-packets-to-http-the-many-faces-of-our-oxy-framework/ • https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-vpc-open-beta/ About the role As a software engineer on the Zero Trust Connectivity team, you will contribute across a wide range of technologies and systems to deliver new solutions that connect Cloudflare One products together. You will build connectivity in a user-space service that can identify and route flows across our global network. This work requires close collaboration with other teams while leveraging powerful frameworks and libraries that power many Cloudflare products. Our technology stack includes Rust, Linux networking, Clickhouse, SaltStack, Prometheus, AI harnesses, and our own Cloudflare Workers platform. We're looking for determined, curious, empathetic engineers to join our team! Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience • Programming experience in Rust • Familiar with Layer 3 and Layer 4 Networking • Systems-level programming experience in Linux • Experience building large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems • Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems • Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, de