Senior Systems Engineer, Core Storage & Pipelines

CloudFlare; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Equity Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for its Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team, focusing on storage and streaming data services built on Cloudflare's global network. Seattle or Austin-based roles are available in this capacity.

The role involves designing and implementing core infrastructure components, writing high-performance Rust or C++ code, and addressing complex race conditions and network partitions to improve reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing, building, and deploying internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines.
• Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
• Proven ability to debug race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure layer.
• Deep, expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ applied to systems programming.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement foundational layers of next-generation data services built on Cloudflare's global network.

Skills

6+ years experience

Rust/C++ systems programming

Distributed systems

Debugging complex race conditions

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for its Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team, focusing on storage and streaming data services built on Cloudflare's global network. Seattle or Austin-based roles are available in this capacity.

The role involves designing and implementing core infrastructure components, writing high-performance Rust or C++ code, and addressing complex race conditions and network partitions to improve reliability at scale.