Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Cloudflare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 168,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring for a role in Denver to own and improve its globally distributed key-value store, Quicksilver, written in Go and C. You will work on challenging bugs, scaling data across data centers, and ensuring edge reliability while owning the full stack from code to deployment.

The role emphasizes developing features in Go, performance tuning, and contributing to monitoring tools. Expect to operate across a large-scale, distributed environment with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience building robust distributed systems and high-performance services.
• Strong knowledge of Go and C with systems programming exposure.
• Ability to diagnose complex multi-layer issues and reason about trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Develop features for Quicksilver Go-based services at scale.
• Review code and contribute to deployment, monitoring, and on-call.
• Improve performance and reliability of the key-value store.
• Investigate hard-to-reproduce issues across stack.

Skills

Go

C

Distributed systems

Storage systems

System programming

Debugging

Autonomy

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Git

Docker

Job description

Cloudflare is hiring for a role in Denver to own and improve its globally distributed key-value store, Quicksilver, written in Go and C. You will work on challenging bugs, scaling data across data centers, and ensuring edge reliability while owning the full stack from code to deployment.

The role emphasizes developing features in Go, performance tuning, and contributing to monitoring tools. Expect to operate across a large-scale, distributed environment with on-call responsibilities.