Senior Network Engineer

Cloudflare
Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, Mexico City
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)Skills: ["Python","TypeScript","Go","BGP","Anycast","MPLS","Segment Routing","Juniper","Cisco","Arista","SaltStack","Ansible","Workers AI","AI Gateway","LLM","Runbooks","Postmortems"]

Lead operational engineering of Cloudflare's global network, owning faults, driving capacity planning, and building AI-enabled tooling to reduce toil. Mentor engineers, shape cross-functional projects, and improve latency and reliability across edge and backbone. This hands-on role combines network operations with AI-driven automation in a globally distributed team.

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Cloudflare
Cloudflare
3 months ago

Senior Network Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead operational engineering of Cloudflare's global network, owning faults, driving capacity planning, and building AI-enabled tooling to reduce toil. Mentor engineers, shape cross-functional projects, and improve latency and reliability across edge and backbone. This hands-on role combines network operations with AI-driven automation in a globally distributed team.
Location: Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, Mexico City
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: IT Operations (Systems/Network Admin)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical operation, engineering, and architecture of Cloudflare's global network, including planning, installation, and day-to-day management of hardware and software across the edge and backbone.
  • •Serve as a hands-on operational anchor for the team — diagnosing and resolving complex network faults, owning incident response end-to-end including on-call rotation, and contributing to post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
  • •Build production AI agents for network operations. Design, ship, and own LLM-powered tools that integrate with our operational systems of record via tool calling. Ship them with evals, observability of agent decisions, cost tracking, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where autonomous action carries blast radius.
  • •Apply AI to accelerate troubleshooting. Use and extend our internal AI platform (Workers AI, AI Gateway) to speed up root cause analysis, pattern recognition across faults, and operational decision-making under pressure.
  • •Architect network improvements that lower latency, reduce packet loss, and increase scale — optimising end user experience across Cloudflare's global infrastructure.
  • •Mentor and develop junior engineers on the team, setting technical standards, conducting structured troubleshooting sessions, and building a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning.
  • •Collaborate with internal teams on cross-functional network projects, contributing to design documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base articles that outlast any individual contributor.

Key Requirements

  • •Proven track record in large-scale network engineering and operations.
  • •Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript and/or Go sufficient to build, debug, and maintain agent code.
  • •Working knowledge of agent integration patterns: function/tool calling, MCP or equivalent, retrieval over operational corpora (runbooks, postmortems, change history), and prompt iteration with evals.
  • •Experience reasoning about agent failure modes in production: hallucination guards, fallback paths, rollback, blast-radius control.
  • •Deep expertise in BGP and anycast routing, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex routing issues in a production environment.
Experience:NetworkingCloudInfrastructure
Skills:PythonTypeScriptGoBGPAnycastMPLSSegment RoutingJuniperCiscoAristaSaltStackAnsibleWorkers AIAI GatewayLLMRunbooksPostmortems
Certifications:CCNPJNCIP
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptGoBGPAnycastMPLSSegment RoutingJuniperCiscoAristaSaltStackAnsibleWorkers AIAI GatewayLLM

Company Brief

Cloudflare
Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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