Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Maintain and expand Cloudflare’s large-scale DNS infrastructure by designing, implementing, testing, and operating reliable systems. Own medium-to-large projects from design through rollout, monitoring, on-call, and follow-up. Debug complex service issues, improve resilience and architecture, collaborate with Product, contribute to requirements, and mentor junior engineers. The role emphasizes systems programming, performance, concurrency, networking, distributed systems, and high-quality production code in Rust or Go.

Develop and maintain Chromium-based browser and distributed systems components using C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript. Own features through design, testing, rollout, and production support; debug browser, Linux, and service failures; improve reliability, latency, startup performance, and resource efficiency. Participate in code reviews, documentation, automated testing, collaboration, and on-call incident response.

Develop and maintain distributed systems, resource-usage instrumentation, data pipelines, and measurement libraries for Cloudflare’s global edge platform. Collaborate across engineering teams and with product managers to support synthetic and load-testing products. The role requires performance-sensitive infrastructure experience, networking knowledge, large-scale data processing expertise, and proficiency in Go, Rust, or C. Bonus work includes Linux kernel internals, distributed-system troubleshooting, and configuration or deployment management.

Build and secure employee IT systems, focusing on Okta IAM, MDM, identity lifecycle workflows, access policies, device compliance, automation, and integrations. Develop scripts and APIs across Okta, MDM, Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, and IT service systems. Partner with Security on least privilege and endpoint protection, troubleshoot complex issues, document configurations, reduce technical debt, and expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AI-assisted workflows.

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Automate CI/CD workflows, manage cloud infrastructure, improve reliability and performance, support observability, troubleshoot Windows and Linux build environments, integrate Perforce, document standardized configurations, and collaborate with development, platform, and DevOps teams across multiple studios.

Owns the design, development, configuration, deployment, and support of Salesforce CPQ solutions. Partners with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable pricing, product configuration, discounting, approvals, and quoting capabilities. Troubleshoots issues, manages enhancements and releases, maintains system security and data integrity, and documents solution designs and configuration standards.

Own and develop Cloudflare’s procurement systems ecosystem, including Zip, Ironclad, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, and Coupa migration. Administer environments, access controls, integrations, workflows, APIs, AI features, upgrades, and Tier 3 support. Partner with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Audit, Risk, and Compliance to optimize P2P and CLM processes, maintain SOX controls, enforce segregation of duties, support data governance, and ensure audit readiness and business continuity.

Own and develop Cloudflare’s Order-to-Cash and Record-to-Report enterprise systems, including NetSuite, Zuora RevPro, and Oracle Fusion. Build integrations, billing and revenue workflows, automations, and AI-enabled financial operations. Manage environments, access controls, compliance, support, upgrades, and system governance. Partner with Finance and Accounting leadership on scalable billing, revenue recognition, consolidations, month-end close, SOX controls, and audit readiness.

Leads the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of DevOps, CI/CD, build, release, and developer productivity platforms for next-generation infotainment systems. Designs scalable embedded Linux build pipelines, automates releases, improves observability, builds self-service tooling, and drives cross-functional initiatives. The role mentors engineers, influences technical direction, and advances software delivery reliability and developer velocity across multiple vehicle programs.

Lead complex systems initiatives for Cloudflare Browser Isolation across Chromium, distributed services, and remote browsing infrastructure. Design and implement C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript systems; investigate cross-layer performance and reliability issues; improve observability, capacity, rollout safety, and resilience. The role includes architectural decision-making, technical leadership, mentoring, cross-team coordination, incident response, and production on-call participation.

Design, deploy, maintain, tune, and secure enterprise Linux environments supporting high-performance EDA compute farms. Lead infrastructure-as-code automation, configuration management, continuous deployment, and tooling development using Python, Bash, or Go. Manage LDAP/SSSD naming services, NFS and Autofs storage, virtualization, container infrastructure, registries, networking, and infrastructure telemetry. Support highly available, scalable systems and potentially integrate cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, EDA toolchains, and HPC clusters.

Designs and manages scalable systems and developer productivity tooling for Cloudflare’s engineering platform. Responsibilities include improving development practices, securing platforms, optimizing CPU, bandwidth, and storage resources, advising application teams on architecture, driving productivity initiatives, and responding to platform incidents. The role requires large-scale distributed systems or Linux production experience, systems programming, container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and strong troubleshooting skills.

Design, build, and operate the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. Implement secure networking dataplanes (IPsec, MASQUE, eBPF), reliable fleet control and remote lifecycle management, telemetry and diagnostics, and drive product-focused technical leadership from architecture through rollout and incident response.

Build and maintain production reliability testing infrastructure and availability reporting. Define and measure SLIs/SLOs (correctness, availability, latency) for large-scale distributed systems. Collaborate with engineering, SRE, and product teams to instrument systems, surface reliability metrics, and drive improvements. Communicate findings and help teams implement reliability plans.

Supports systems administration across Windows and Linux environments in on-premise and cloud infrastructure. Performs patching, account provisioning, alert triage, backup verification, hardware installation, asset tracking, documentation, and basic scripting. Assists with incident response, troubleshooting, disaster recovery testing, and infrastructure projects under senior engineer guidance while following security, compliance, and change-management procedures.

Designs, integrates, and optimizes complex semiconductor equipment systems and subsystems. Defines architectures and specifications, evaluates requirements, builds and qualifies prototypes, conducts engineering and reliability testing, troubleshoots integration issues, and supports manufacturing, final testing, and field personnel. Collaborates across electrical, mechanical, physics, algorithms, software, marketing, and project management teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable solutions.

Designs, develops, and optimizes embedded software for Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, and ARM-based platforms. Responsibilities include firmware, middleware, device drivers, sensor and peripheral integration, edge computing, computer vision, fault detection, OTA updates, and production lifecycle ownership. The role collaborates across hardware, mechanical, and cloud teams, drives testing and documentation standards, and mentors engineers.

Build and improve the systems powering Base’s go-to-market operations. Partner with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Member Experience to optimize workflows, connect CRM and internal tools, maintain data pipelines, automate processes, investigate issues through reporting, and deliver scalable solutions. The role also owns a roadmap based on business needs and data insights, requiring strong software fundamentals, systems thinking, communication, and experience working with CRM or GTM teams.

Provides application operations support and ownership for production-critical manufacturing applications. Responsibilities include monitoring availability and performance, troubleshooting incidents, supporting deployments and patches, conducting root-cause analysis, managing certificates and documentation, maintaining recovery procedures, and collaborating across application, infrastructure, database, and manufacturing teams. The role supports Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, cloud, and database environments, provides remote site support, and participates in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Lead hardware bring-up, validation, diagnostics, and troubleshooting for Arm-based AI compute platforms across laboratory and data center environments. Investigate server, motherboard, power, thermal, network, BIOS, and BMC failures; perform root-cause analysis; support deployment and qualification; develop troubleshooting documentation; and mentor junior personnel. The role collaborates with engineering, platform, facilities, and data center teams and participates in on-call support during critical milestones.

Designs, builds, and operates data center, server, storage, HPC, and GPU infrastructure. Responsibilities include hardware procurement and lifecycle management, power and cooling design, bare-metal provisioning, automation, Linux and Windows administration, monitoring, capacity planning, maintenance coordination, incident response, compliance, and technical documentation. The role requires hands-on work across both data center operations and infrastructure engineering, including 24/7 on-call readiness.

Develop and govern scalable NetSuite customizations and integrations using SuiteScript, automated testing, and AI-assisted development. Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, and business users to translate requirements into durable solutions. Establish coding, testing, documentation, configuration, change-management, and AI-use standards while supporting integrations with Workato, billing platforms, payment processors, 3PL partners, and enterprise APIs.

Designs, integrates, and optimizes complex semiconductor equipment systems. Responsibilities include defining subsystem architectures, analyzing requirements, leading architecture selection, building and qualifying prototypes, troubleshooting engineering issues, supporting system integration and testing, assessing reliability, mitigating risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams across electrical, mechanical, physics, algorithms, and software disciplines. Provides remote and onsite support to field personnel.

Build and ship core 0-to-1 systems connecting software, hardware, and finance. Responsibilities include designing abstractions over complex data and legacy systems, owning the full product lifecycle, developing production-grade LLM systems for loan underwriting and compliance, and contributing to engineering and product culture. The role requires strong backend and systems thinking, with comfort in full-stack development and UI design.