Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client

<div class="content-intro"><h3>About Us</h3> <p>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.</p> <p>At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.</p></div><p><strong>Available Locations: </strong>Austin, Seattle</p> <h4><strong>About the role</strong></h4> <p>We’re looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to join our <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/">Zero Trust</a> team. You will be working on the <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-devices/warp/">Zero Trust desktop client</a>, which protects corporate devices by securely and privately sending traffic from those devices to Cloudflare’s global network, which can apply advanced web filtering and advanced Zero Trust policies.</p> <h4><strong>What you'll do</strong></h4> <p>In your role, you will predominantly be using <strong>Rust</strong> along platform-native languages &amp; APIs to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple desktop platforms. You’ll be expected to <strong>improve the code quality</strong> and to build solid, <strong>testable, </strong>and<strong> well-documented</strong> foundations. You will be most successful in this role if you have a good understanding of <strong>Windows internals</strong> (virtual memory, multi-