Go Systems Engineer - Load Balancing & Distributed Systems

Cloudflare, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a talented Systems Engineer for its Load Balancing team in Austin. You’ll work on microservices in Go, using Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Unix/Linux tools.

You’ll help build reliable, scalable systems that operate at Cloudflare’s massive scale. You’ll collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams, review code, mentor teammates, and debug complex systems to maintain high operational health.

Qualifications

• Curiosity and critical thinking.
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Experience with modern Unix/Linux development and runtime environments.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Clickhouse databases.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems for Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from design to testing to deployment.
• Collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams to design scalable solutions.
• Review peer code to ensure high quality and maintainability.
• Mentor teammates and coordinate with support teams to ensure customer delight.
• Debug complex systems and improve operational health.
• Work with Go, Rust, Typescript, SQL/NoSQL databases, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Unix/Linux development

Monitoring & debugging

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Grafana

gRPC

Kafka

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a talented Systems Engineer for its Load Balancing team in Austin. You’ll work on microservices in Go, using Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Unix/Linux tools.

You’ll help build reliable, scalable systems that operate at Cloudflare’s massive scale. You’ll collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams, review code, mentor teammates, and debug complex systems to maintain high operational health.