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Cloudflare · 5 months ago

Systems Engineer, R2 Storage

positionAustin, TX
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid Level

Cloudflare is a company on a mission to help build a better Internet, operating one of the world's largest networks. They are seeking a Systems Engineer for their R2 object storage platform, where you will be responsible for building and maintaining distributed systems that handle high throughput and provide strong consistency and durability guarantees.

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Responsibilities

Help us build out the next generation of Object Storage in a globally distributed system written in Rust
Own your code from inception to release
Delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers
Write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem
Implement a new feature
Fix a bug that's impacting our users

Qualification

RustDistributed systemsHigh-throughput systemsGoObservability toolsDistributed storage systemsDevOps/SRE experienceWritten communicationVerbal communication

Required

Help build out the next generation of Object Storage in a globally distributed system written in Rust
Own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers
Write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, implement a new feature, or fix a bug that's impacting our users
Interact with a variety of languages and technologies including Rust, Go, and TypeScript

Preferred

Systems-level programming skills with languages like Rust, Go, or C is strongly preferred
A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, and partition tolerance
Experience with distributed storage systems like CEPH is a strong plus
Solid experience with Observability using tools like grafana or Datadog
Some experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems
Experience with storage systems, networking, or large-scale cloud infrastructure is a strong plus
Some DevOps/SRE experience operating distributed backend systems at scale using Salt is a plus

Company

Cloudflare

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Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.
dateFounded in 2009
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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http://www.cloudflare.com

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.08B
Key Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M

Leadership Team

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Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
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Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
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