Senior Software Engineer — Distributed KV & Edge (Go)

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Medical Insurance

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve Quicksilver, Cloudflare’s globally distributed key-value store. You will work on Go and C, tackle edge cases, and help ensure data is delivered fast and reliably across thousands of servers and data centers.

You’ll join a team that writes robust systems, improves performance, and builds monitoring and tooling. Expect challenging bugs, outages on off-hours, and opportunities to shape scalable infrastructure at a global scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building robust distributed systems.
• Proven experience with storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, large-scale distributed systems or system programming.
• Curious, autonomous, and able to design simple solutions for complex issues.
• Flexible and willing to work outages during off-hours.
• Experience tracing problems through multiple layers of software stacks.

Responsibilities

• Write new features for the distributed key-value store in Go and review pull requests.
• Improve performance, CPU and memory usage.
• Improve monitoring and tooling, all written in Go.
• Assist with debugging and investigating hard-to-reproduce problems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Large-scale systems

System programming

Debugging complex issues

Tools

Go

C

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve Quicksilver, Cloudflare’s globally distributed key-value store. You will work on Go and C, tackle edge cases, and help ensure data is delivered fast and reliably across thousands of servers and data centers.

You’ll join a team that writes robust systems, improves performance, and builds monitoring and tooling. Expect challenging bugs, outages on off-hours, and opportunities to shape scalable infrastructure at a global scale.