Network Software Engineer Lisboa

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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.

Available Locations

Austin, Lisbon, London. Hiring will be focused on those residing within the greater Austin, TX, London, UK, & Lisbon, Portugal metro areas. It will be a hybrid role, with the expectation of 2 days per week in the office.

About The Team

The Magic Cloud Networking team builds an orchestration framework that empowers customers to take public cloud resources (e. g. , AWS / Azure / GCP) and securely connect them to Cloudflare’s global data‑center footprint. Working with public cloud networking resources provides unique challenges—each cloud models networking very differently, customers can modify resources
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- band of our orchestration system (“shadow IT operations”), resources can fail in opaque and varied ways outside of our control, etc. To solve these issues, our orchestration platform must be resilient and scalable, while also affording flexibility to the unique constraints of each cloud. Powering this orchestration framework are a set of Go and Rust‑based microservices running in our core data‑centers, leveraging Cloudflare’s infrastructure excellence. We are a team of engineers who obsess over building reliable services which leverage Cloudflare’s unique architecture and global network footprint.

About The Role

As a software engineer on the Magic Cloud Networking team, you will contribute to features that shape Cloudflare One’s use of multi‑cloud networking. You will build solutions that improve performance, scalability, manageability, and security of customer cloud footprints as well as connect them to our global network. This work requires close collaboration with other teams while leveraging frameworks and libraries that power many Cloudflare products. Our technology stack includes Go, Rust, Open
Tofu, Public Clouds (e. g. , AWS / Azure / GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and Prometheus.

Qualifications (Desirable Skills, Knowledge, & Experience)

• Programming experience in Go or Rust
• Familiarity with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking; e. g. , VPCs, transit gateways, BGP and GRE tunnels
• Familiarity with network engineering and protocols used in data‑center switching and routing as well as Internet routing - BGP, BFP, OSPF, MPLS, etc
• Experience building network orchestration platforms
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and backend systems
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
• Own solutions
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  - end and driving the design, development, and deployment process
• Able to work across teams and create common, sustainable solutions
• Creative, open‑minded, collaborative problem solver
• Focus on clarity in written and verbal communication

Our Mission & Projects

Cloudflare is committed to protecting the free and open Internet. Key projects include Project Galileo, Athenian Project, and the public DNS resolver 1. 1. 1. 1.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via
- mail at hr@cloudflare.com.

Seniority Level

• Associate

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• Technology
• Information and Internet
• Computer and Network Security