Senior Distributed Systems Engineer – High Performance

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 74,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Welfare Benefits

Equity plan

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to lead multi‑component initiatives across the browser engine, distributed services, and security‑critical systems. You will work across C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript to deliver scalable, production‑quality changes and improvements.

The role emphasizes ownership, architectural trade-offs, on‑call responsibilities, and mentorship to raise engineering practices and reliability across the team.

Qualifications

• Strong production C++ proficiency with memory management and debugging in large codebases.
• Proven track record leading complex distributed-service improvements across multiple components.
• Strong Linux/UNIX and networking fundamentals with performance analysis experience.
• Experience designing safe rollout and recovery strategies for production systems.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly and mentor teammates.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-component initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation and rollout.
• Design and implement changes in the Chromium-based browser and distributed services, spanning Go, Rust, and TypeScript.
• Explain architectural trade-offs across latency, availability, security, and operational complexity.
• Investigate cross-layer failures and performance bottlenecks; diagnose browser, host, network, and control-plane causes.
• Improve resilience, capacity planning, observability, and release safety; define success metrics and results.
• Coordinate work with partner teams, surface dependencies and risks early, guiding delivery in ambiguity.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality of code reviews, design reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive durable corrective actions when needed.

Skills

C++ proficiency

Distributed systems

Linux/UNIX networking

Communication of trade-offs

Mentoring teammates

Tools

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to lead multi‑component initiatives across the browser engine, distributed services, and security‑critical systems. You will work across C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript to deliver scalable, production‑quality changes and improvements.

The role emphasizes ownership, architectural trade-offs, on‑call responsibilities, and mentorship to raise engineering practices and reliability across the team.