High-Throughput Distributed Data Platform Engineer

Cloudflare; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking experienced data platform engineers to join the DATA Org and help shape the future of data at Cloudflare. You will work on a high-scale data stack, delivering distributed services that power real-time insights for customers worldwide.

Join a team building scalable data delivery, analytical platforms, and customer-facing APIs. If you enjoy solving complex problems at scale, this role offers exposure to cutting-edge technologies and collaborative, cross-team projects.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience delivering distributed systems and databases.
• Strong programming in Go; deep software engineering principles.
• Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus and Grafana at scale.
• Strong SQL knowledge and database internals, optimization.
• Willingness to debug and solve complex high-scale problems.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate clearly.
• Nice to have ClickHouse, Kafka, Flink, GraphQL, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable distributed systems across the entire data lifecycle.
• Build and optimise key components of our high-throughput data delivery platform to ensure data integrity and low-latency delivery.
• Develop new and improve existing components for the Cloudflare Analytical Platform to extend functionality and performance.
• Scale, monitor, and maintain the performance of our large-scale database clusters to accommodate the growing volume of data.
• Develop and enhance our customer-facing GraphQL APIs, log delivery, and alerting solutions, focusing on performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Work to identify and remove bottlenecks across our data platforms, from streamlining data ingestion processes to optimizing query performance.
• Collaborate with other teams across Cloudflare to understand their data needs and build solutions that empower them to make data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with the ClickHouse open-source community to add new features and contribute to the upstream codebase.
• Participate in the development of the next generation of our data platforms, including researching and evaluating new technologies and approaches.

Skills

Go

Prometheus

Grafana

SQL

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Team collaboration

ClickHouse

Kafka

Flink

GraphQL

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Salt

Tools

ClickHouse

Kafka

Flink

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Salt

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking experienced data platform engineers to join the DATA Org and help shape the future of data at Cloudflare. You will work on a high-scale data stack, delivering distributed services that power real-time insights for customers worldwide.

Join a team building scalable data delivery, analytical platforms, and customer-facing APIs. If you enjoy solving complex problems at scale, this role offers exposure to cutting-edge technologies and collaborative, cross-team projects.