Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Data Platform

Cloudflare • Austin, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Engineer focused on Cloudflare's storage and database products, you will shape the future of industry-leading services that redefine what is possible for developers. We don't just copy what other cloud providers do; we work backward from developer needs, reimagining solutions by leveraging our unique global network. This network brings data closer to users for unparalleled performance, allows for granular control to meet data residency requirements, and provides a platform for truly innovative data products.
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 working with distributed systems
• Experience building and managing high volume software applications
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design
• Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language: we primarily use Rust, TypeScript, and Go
• Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system

Nice To Haves

• Experience building and managing a large scale data storage platform
• Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems
• Experience working in a non-garbage collected language such as Rust or C++
• Experience writing Javascript and Typescript
• Deep Linux / UNIX systems knowledge

Responsibilities

• Architecting a new globally distributed data consistency model
• Optimizing storage engine performance
• Designing a novel API for a new data-centric product
• Owning code from inception to release
• Delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack

Benefits

• 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