Senior Systems Engineer, Pipelines

Cloudflare • Austin, TX

46d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Senior Systems Engineer focused on Cloudflare's core storage and streaming products, you will design and implement the foundational layers of our next-generation data services. We work backward from developer needs, reimagining solutions by leveraging our unique global network. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might be architecting a new globally distributed data consistency model, optimizing storage engine performance, or designing a novel API for a new data-centric product. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to JavaScript, Typescript, Rust, and C++.

Requirements

• Minimum 6+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying the internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch.
• Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
• Proven track record of debugging, profiling, and fixing complex race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure layer.
• Deep, expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ applied to systems programming.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building time-series databases, log-structured merge-trees, or real-time stream processing engines from the ground up.
• Academic or professional contributions to distributed systems research (e.g., consensus, conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), or database theory).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the foundational layers of our next-generation data services.
• Own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers.
• Architecting a new globally distributed data consistency model.
• Optimizing storage engine performance.
• Designing a novel API for a new data-centric product.

Benefits

• We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul.
• Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
• Project Galileo: 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 Cloudflare’s enterprise 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 foundation 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 Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed