Systems Engineer, Data

Cloudflare • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed