Systems Engineer, MAPS — Edge Platform & Data Pipelines

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks a Systems Engineer for the MAPS team in Austin, TX. You will develop and maintain highly scalable, latency-sensitive systems and data pipelines powering Cloudflare's edge platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to instrument resource usage, build testing tooling for synthetic and load tests, and partner with product managers to deliver enterprise-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.
• Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics
• Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.
• Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes - not (just) specific pieces of software.
• Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.
• Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while always keeping the big picture in mind.
• Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain distributed systems for MAPS data pipelines and instrumentation.
• Build tooling to support synthetic testing and enterprise load testing.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to understand system behaviors and testing needs.
• Measure and attribute resource usage across Cloudflare's edge platform to enable efficient scaling.

Skills

Go

Rust

C

Latency sensitivity

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

TCP/IP networking

Cross-team collaboration

Ownership of problems

Maintainable systems

Tools

ClickHouse

BigQuery

Dremel

Job description

Cloudflare seeks a Systems Engineer for the MAPS team in Austin, TX. You will develop and maintain highly scalable, latency-sensitive systems and data pipelines powering Cloudflare's edge platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to instrument resource usage, build testing tooling for synthetic and load tests, and partner with product managers to deliver enterprise-ready capabilities.