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Senior

Own the egress path that routes Cloudflare's network traffic to any destination on the Internet

Cloudflare's Egress team builds the network software that lets products like WARP and the iCloud Private Relay proxy connect out from Cloudflare's edge to any destination. This interview probes Go/Rust systems programming, L3/L4 networking depth, and comfort operating a Run-What-You-Build service with on-call responsibility at Internet scale.

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What this interview tests

  • Go and/or Rust systems programming
  • L3/L4 networking (TCP/IP, routing)
  • HTTP, TLS, and CDN network behavior
  • Secure, highly-available distributed systems design
  • Production debugging and on-call ownership (Run What You Build)
  • AI-assisted engineering workflow

Common question themes

Design a secure, highly-available egress/proxy path for traffic leaving an edge network

Debug a production issue in a distributed network service under your team's on-call rotation

Go vs Rust tradeoffs for systems-level networking code

How TLS/HTTP behave differently across CDN-fronted connections

Handling an escalated customer issue with an ambiguous root cause

How you'd use AI tools to analyze a codebase or production dataset

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