Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloudflare is building infrastructure that helps power and protect a better Internet at global scale. The Senior Systems Engineer will design and implement foundational layers for next-generation storage and streaming products, owning code from inception through release. The role involves developing distributed systems, optimizing storage engines, designing APIs, and working with technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++.
Responsibilities
- 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++
Skills
- 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
- 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)
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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