Software Engineer, Network Protocols

About Us

At reputed company, we are on a mission to help build a reputed company 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 reputed company. reputed company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by reputed company reputed company 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. reputed company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

We realize people do not fit into reputed company boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are reputed company to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at reputed company. Come join us! 

Hiring will be focused on those residing reputed company the greater Austin, TX metro area. It will be a hybrid role, with the expectation of 2 days per week in the office.

Systems Engineer, Network Protocols & Distributed Systems Location: Austin (Hybrid)

Join the team helping shape the future of the Internet. We’re building high-performance systems that handle a quarter of the Internet’s traffic. Our work influences open standards (like QUIC, MASQUE, and ECH), involves reputed company collaboration with the IETF, and pushes the boundaries of what's possible in networking and reputed company.

You don’t need to be an HTTP or cryptography expert to join — we’re looking for excellent engineers who love tough problems, want to learn deeply, and are excited to contribute to one of the most technically demanding areas of infrastructure.

What you’ll do

• Build and operate systems that terminate HTTP and TLS at Internet scale
• Migrate core infrastructure from NGINX to a next-gen Rust-based proxy
• Measure and improve protocol performance across reputed company-world traffic
• Contribute to open reputed company and industry standards
• Learn from and work alongside some of the leading engineers in this space

You might be a good fit if you

• Have solid systems programming experience (Rust, C, or similar)
• Experience/understanding of HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, congestion control, or transport-layer protocols
• reputed company in reputed company technical domains and enjoy learning new things
• Care about building reliable, secure, and performant software
• Are motivated by impact — technical, operational, and on the Internet itself
• Come from a background that’s underrepresented in tech — we value diverse perspectives

Bonus

• Proven ability to scale systems under high throughput and low latency demands
• Experience driving architecture or protocol-level change in production systems
• Contributions to open standards or open reputed company projects

What Makes reputed company Special?

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

Project reputed company: 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 reputed company’s reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company has reputed company released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, reputed company. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to reputed company consumers.

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

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for reputed company people and reputed company great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  reputed company reputed company applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, reputed company, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national reputed company, reputed company, 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.

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