Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Own interconnection and backbone strategy across the Americas, balancing U.S. network scale with South American connectivity challenges. Lead peering, private interconnect, transit, IX, transport, and backbone capacity decisions; negotiate complex agreements with ISPs, carriers, and partners; model cost, capacity, and resiliency; and use AI-driven analytics and automation to improve operations. Collaborate with network engineering, infrastructure, capacity planning, and data center teams while representing Cloudflare in industry forums.

Design, implement, maintain, test, monitor, and debug Cloudflare’s distributed Load Balancing systems. Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams to build scalable, fault-tolerant solutions. Participate throughout the software development lifecycle, review code, mentor teammates, support production operations, and improve system reliability using Go, Rust, TypeScript, databases, containers, and orchestration technologies.

Build and improve Cloudflare Workers Runtime features that execute customer code at the edge. Responsibilities include optimizing performance, reliability, and scalability; expanding JavaScript and WebAssembly support; shaping technically feasible features; owning production code; and debugging large-scale distributed systems. The role requires strong computer science fundamentals, C++ or Rust experience, web knowledge, and Linux-based systems expertise.

Designs and operates distributed database systems across query execution, transaction processing, durable storage, concurrency, replication, recovery, and upgrades. Responsibilities include improving database performance, building deterministic failure simulations, managing stateful rollouts, participating in on-call response, leading production changes and investigations, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise and experience operating correctness-sensitive stateful services in production.

Lead customer-embedded infrastructure delivery from hardware validation and capacity onboarding through production operations. Build automation for provisioning, fleet management, observability, and reliability; coordinate Cloudflare infrastructure, hardware, data center, supply chain, network, and customer engineering teams. Own technical relationships, capacity planning, incident response, operational readiness, and feedback to product teams. The role requires regular on-site customer engagement in Austin or San Francisco.

Design and build frontend experiences and components for the Cloudflare dashboard. Collaborate with design and systems engineers, own code from inception to release, and improve developer experience. Debug, optimize, and identify failure modes in large-scale frontend and distributed systems.

Lead the architecture and evolution of Cloudflare’s global network infrastructure. Own capacity planning, hardware and platform strategies, routing and traffic engineering standards, multi-year infrastructure roadmaps, and network automation frameworks. Evaluate emerging technologies, optimize cost and reliability, guide major architectural transitions, and collaborate with engineering, procurement, finance, and operations teams. Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across the organization.

Build and maintain Cloudflare’s deployment platform, enabling safe, reliable, automated releases at global scale. Responsibilities include progressive deployments, health-mediated rollouts, release workflow automation, internal instrumentation, deployment tooling, and frontend and backend development. The role requires predictable delivery on fast-moving projects and may include after-hours on-call support.

Provide technical leadership for Cloudflare’s deployment platform, defining architecture and multi-quarter direction for safe, automated, health-mediated releases at massive scale. Lead RFCs, design reviews, incident retrospectives, technical migrations, and cross-team platform initiatives. Mentor engineers, influence teams without direct authority, develop observability and rollback guardrails, and shape AI integration in a safety-critical deployment system. The role requires autonomy, strong communication, and occasional on-call support.

Build, deploy, and manage large-scale multi-region PostgreSQL clusters in production. Develop automation, monitoring, observability, and performance-tuning tools; implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions; optimize indexing and queries; and collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to integrate database tooling and improve platform reliability.