Senior Systems Engineer, Basin Pipelines — Rust/C++

Cloudflare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock participation

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and implement the foundational layers of next-generation data services for its core storage and streaming products. You’ll work from concept to release, influencing architecture and performance across a globally distributed network.

Expect hands-on work with languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++, collaborating across teams to build scalable infrastructure solutions that power Cloudflare customers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years designing, building, and deploying internals of large-scale distributed systems.
• Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
• Proven debugging and profiling of complex race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure level.
• Deep, expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ applied to systems programming.
• Bonus: experience building time-series databases or real-time stream processing engines from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement foundational data services across the software stack.
• Own code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the stack.

Skills

Distributed systems

Rust

C++

JavaScript

TypeScript

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and implement the foundational layers of next-generation data services for its core storage and streaming products. You’ll work from concept to release, influencing architecture and performance across a globally distributed network.

Expect hands-on work with languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++, collaborating across teams to build scalable infrastructure solutions that power Cloudflare customers.