Senior Systems Engineer, Core Storage & Streaming

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for its Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team in Austin or Seattle. You will design and implement foundational data services, owning code end-to-end and shaping globally distributed storage and streaming systems.

Proficiency in Rust or C++ is essential, with extensive experience in large-scale distributed environments. You will work across languages and collaborate with a global network to push the boundaries of infrastructure software,

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying the internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch.
• Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
• Proven track record of debugging, profiling, and fixing complex 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

• As a Senior Systems Engineer focused on Cloudflare's core storage and streaming products, you will design and implement the foundational layers of our next-generation data services.
• You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Rust

C++

Storage engines

Network partition

Debugging

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for its Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team in Austin or Seattle. You will design and implement foundational data services, owning code end-to-end and shaping globally distributed storage and streaming systems.

Proficiency in Rust or C++ is essential, with extensive experience in large-scale distributed environments. You will work across languages and collaborate with a global network to push the boundaries of infrastructure software,