Senior Systems Engineer: Distributed Storage & Pipelines

Cloudflare; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Cloudflare in London seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for the Emerging Technologies & Incubation team to design and build core storage and streaming tools at global scale. You'll own features from ideation to release, work across languages including Rust and C++, and push the boundaries of distributed systems engineering for our data services.

Applicants should have 6+ years designing distributed systems, with experience in storage engines and real‑time data processing; equity and full benefits

Qualifications

• 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.

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.
• You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Rust

C++

Storage engines

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Cloudflare in London seeks a Senior Systems Engineer for the Emerging Technologies & Incubation team to design and build core storage and streaming tools at global scale. You'll own features from ideation to release, work across languages including Rust and C++, and push the boundaries of distributed systems engineering for our data services.

Applicants should have 6+ years designing distributed systems, with experience in storage engines and real‑time data processing; equity and full benefits