Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical DB Platform

Cloudflare Events; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare’s Data Org is seeking systems-oriented backend engineers to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed data systems using Go. You will work on ClickHouse-based analytics, data delivery pipelines, and GraphQL APIs, contributing to a resilient and scalable data platform.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call rotations, and help optimize data integrity, latency, and performance across ingestion, storage, and retrieval platforms.

Qualifications

• Three years of professional software engineering experience building backend, infrastructure, database, or distributed-data systems.
• Strong Go programming skills, or substantial systems programming experience with Go uptake.
• Experience building and operating production services including deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and debugging.
• Solid understanding of distributed-systems concepts: concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable distributed systems that process very large data volumes.
• Develop and optimise backend services and data platform components, primarily in Go.
• Improve data integrity, delivery latency, query performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
• Build systems that handle failures safely using backpressure, retries, idempotency, replication, and graceful degradation.
• Define service-level objectives, monitor production health, plan capacity, and respond to incidents.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks across ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Production services

Observability

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

Kafka

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cloudflare’s Data Org is seeking systems-oriented backend engineers to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed data systems using Go. You will work on ClickHouse-based analytics, data delivery pipelines, and GraphQL APIs, contributing to a resilient and scalable data platform.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call rotations, and help optimize data integrity, latency, and performance across ingestion, storage, and retrieval platforms.