Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Threat Intelligence Platform

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and scale distributed tools and services supporting threat disruption and platform safety. You will develop data pipelines to collect and analyze threat intelligence for Cloudflare customers, and help identify TTPs and IOCs.

You will collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Product teams, translate complex requirements into scalable solutions, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring

Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows.
• 5+ years building large-scale distributed software.
• Designing and integrating RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL or similar DB.
• Production-grade Go and/or TypeScript code experience.
• Familiarity with Rust is a plus.
• Proven debugging, optimization and testing capabilities.
• Mentor teammates and promote best practices.
• Nice-to-have: Trust & Safety, Legal domain experience.
• Knowledge of DNS/TLS/HTTP and web security standards.
• Experience with Kafka, React, Kubernetes, Redis is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run, and scale distributed tools and services.
• Develop data pipelines to collect, analyze, expose threat intel.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Product teams.
• Improve system design for stability, performance, and maintainability.
• Analyze, communicate, and prioritize complex technical concepts.
• Participate in on-call rotations and maintain production services.
• Mentor and guide other developers to promote best practices.

Skills

AI-assisted development

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs / gRPC

SQL / PostgreSQL

Go / TypeScript

Rust familiarity

Debugging / optimization

Well-tested code

Technical mentoring

DNS / TLS / HTTP knowledge

Web security standards

Kafka

React

Kubernetes

Redis

Tools

Kafka

React

Kubernetes

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and scale distributed tools and services supporting threat disruption and platform safety. You will develop data pipelines to collect and analyze threat intelligence for Cloudflare customers, and help identify TTPs and IOCs.

You will collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Product teams, translate complex requirements into scalable solutions, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring