Go Backend Systems Engineer — Data Platform (Equity)

Cloudflare; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking experienced backend engineers to build and operate large-scale distributed systems in Go, with a focus on data ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval. You will contribute to analytical databases, data delivery pipelines, and customer-facing APIs while owning production duties.

You’ll work across ingestion, processing, and delivery pathways, participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with product teams to meet data needs at global scale.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend, infrastructure, or distributed-data systems.
• Strong Go programming skills, or substantial systems programming experience (Rust, C++) with the ability to become productive in Go quickly.
• Experience building and operating production services, including deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and debugging.
• A solid understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, and data integrity.
• Experience with high-throughput or low-latency data processing.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, including monitoring high-cardinality workloads.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, particularly for complex production problems.
• Clear communication and an ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable distributed systems that process very large volumes of data.
• 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 failure safely through 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.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand data needs and design pragmatic solutions.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Production services

Observability

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

Kafka/Flink

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking experienced backend engineers to build and operate large-scale distributed systems in Go, with a focus on data ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval. You will contribute to analytical databases, data delivery pipelines, and customer-facing APIs while owning production duties.

You’ll work across ingestion, processing, and delivery pathways, participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with product teams to meet data needs at global scale.