Systems Engineer, Data

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

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 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. We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! Available Locations: Austin About the Team The Core Data team’s mission is building a centralized data platform for Cloudflare that provides secure, democratized access to data for internal customers throughout the company. We operate infrastructure and craft tools to empower both technical and non-technical users to answer their most important questions. We facilitate access to data from federated sources across the company for dashboarding, ad-hoc querying and in-product use cases. We power data pipelines and data products, secure and monitor data, and drive data governance at Cloudflare. Our work enables every individual at the company to act with greater information and make more informed decisions. About the Role We are looking for a systems engineer with a strong background in data to help us expand and maintain our data infrastructure. You’ll contribute to the technical implementation of our scaling data platform, manage access while accounting for privacy and security, build data pipelines, and develop tools to automate accessibility and usefulness of data. You’ll collaborate with teams including Product Growth, Marketing, and Billing to help them make informed decisions and power usage-based invoicing platforms, as well as work with product teams to bring new data-driven solutions to Cloudflare customers.

Requirements

3-5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on building and maintaining data infrastructure.
Experience participating in technical initiatives in a cross-functional context, working with stakeholders to deliver value.
Practical experience with data infrastructure components, such as Trino, Spark, Iceberg/Delta Lake, Kafka, Clickhouse, or PostgreSQL.
Hands-on experience building and debugging data pipelines.
Proficient using backend languages like Go, Python, or Typescript, along with strong SQL skills.
Strong analytical skills, with a focus on understanding how data is used to drive business value.
Solid communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with data orchestration and infrastructure platforms like Airflow and DBT.
Experience deploying and managing services in Kubernetes.
Familiarity with data governance processes, privacy requirements, or auditability.
Interest in or knowledge of machine learning models and MLOps.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and execution of technical architecture for highly visible data infrastructure at the company.
Design and develop tools and infrastructure to improve and scale our data systems at Cloudflare.
Build and maintain data pipelines and data products to serve customers throughout the company, including tools to automate delivery of those services.
Gain deep knowledge of our data platforms and tools to guide and enable stakeholders with their data needs.
Work across our tech stack, which includes Kubernetes, Trino, Iceberg, Clickhouse, and PostgreSQL, with software built using Go, Javascript/Typescript, Python, and others.
Collaborate with peers to reinforce a culture of exceptional delivery and accountability on the team.

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