Senior Systems Engineer, Distributed Storage & Pipelines

Cloudflare; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and implement the core storage and data‑services infrastructure for Basin Pipelines. The role emphasizes building from scratch rather than operating existing systems, with exposure to multiple languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++).

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems, experience with storage/streaming components, and a track record of diagnosing difficult failures.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ 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. On any given day, you might be architecting a new globally distributed data consistency model, optimizing storage engine performance, or designing a novel API for a new data-centric product.

Skills

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

JavaScript

TypeScript

Networking

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

Parquet

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to design and implement the core storage and data‑services infrastructure for Basin Pipelines. The role emphasizes building from scratch rather than operating existing systems, with exposure to multiple languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++).

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems, experience with storage/streaming components, and a track record of diagnosing difficult failures.