Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (Go/C) - Edge KV Scale

Cloudflare; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Health benefits

401k plan

Employee stock plan

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks an experienced backend engineer to work on Quicksilver, our globally distributed key-value store. You will write features in Go, review PRs, and help maintain the edge delivery stack across thousands of servers and data centers.

You’ll tackle challenging outages, optimize performance, and contribute to monitoring, deployment plans, and on-call duties while collaborating with a highly skilled team. This role requires autonomy and problem-solving at scale.

Qualifications

• Robust systems design with attention to performance and debt.
• Experience with storage/peer-to-peer or distributed systems.
• Ability to chase cross-layer issues across software stack.
• Autonomous, out-of-the-box thinking with simple, smart designs.
• Pragmatic with a bias for simple solutions.
• Interest in both low- and high-level programming languages.
• Good at giving and receiving constructive design feedback.
• Comfort with outages during off-hours.

Responsibilities

• Write new features in Go and review pull requests.
• Improve performance, CPU, memory usage.
• Improve our monitoring and our tools, all written in Go.
• Help with debugging and investigating hard to reproduce problems.

Skills

Go

C

Distributed systems

Job description

Cloudflare seeks an experienced backend engineer to work on Quicksilver, our globally distributed key-value store. You will write features in Go, review PRs, and help maintain the edge delivery stack across thousands of servers and data centers.

You’ll tackle challenging outages, optimize performance, and contribute to monitoring, deployment plans, and on-call duties while collaborating with a highly skilled team. This role requires autonomy and problem-solving at scale.