Senior Distributed Storage Engineer (Go/Rust)

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare’s ETI Storage Infrastructure team builds the core storage layer supporting distributed services across Cloudflare’s edge network. You will help manage distributed databases and storage systems, optimize rebuilds, and ensure durability at scale.

The role emphasizes correctness, performance, and collaboration across teams, with exposure to Go, Rust, Saltstack, and Terraform, shaping high‑throughput, low‑latency storage for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed databases or storage systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C++, or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, MVCC, isolation.
• Experience reading and debugging complex codebases with correctness in mind.
• Familiarity with storage engines like RocksDB, LevelDB, Pebble.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Add features and extensions to the database for R2, Durable Objects, and Workers KV.
• Ensure correctness through code reviews, testing, and staged rollout.
• Tune performance and resource usage during rollouts and production.
• Optimize data placement and replication for edge topology with schema design input.
• Build observability and tooling for the database across consumers.
• Collaborate with teams using Go, Rust, Saltstack, and Terraform.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

SQL databases

Networking basics

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring Grafana

Tools

Saltstack

Terraform

Job description

Cloudflare’s ETI Storage Infrastructure team builds the core storage layer supporting distributed services across Cloudflare’s edge network. You will help manage distributed databases and storage systems, optimize rebuilds, and ensure durability at scale.

The role emphasizes correctness, performance, and collaboration across teams, with exposure to Go, Rust, Saltstack, and Terraform, shaping high‑throughput, low‑latency storage for millions of customers.