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Cloudflare · 1 month ago

Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Data Platform

positionHybrid
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
date6+ years exp

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet, running one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites. As a Senior Engineer focused on Cloudflare's storage and database products, you will shape industry-leading services and deliver solutions across the software stack to empower customers.

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Responsibilities

Shape the future of industry-leading services that redefine what is possible for developers
Own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers
Architect a new globally distributed data consistency model, optimize storage engine performance, or design a novel API for a new data-centric product

Qualification

Distributed systemsHigh volume software applicationsStrongly-typed programming languagesDebugging large-scale systemsData structuresAlgorithmsJavaScriptTypeScriptRustC++Linux / UNIX knowledge

Required

Minimum 6 years of experience working with distributed systems
Experience building and managing high volume software applications
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design
Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language: we primarily use Rust, TypeScript, and Go
Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system

Preferred

Experience building and managing a large scale data storage platform
Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems
Experience working in a non-garbage collected language such as Rust or C++
Experience writing Javascript and Typescript
Deep Linux / UNIX systems knowledge

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

H1B Sponsorship

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2024 (115)
2023 (66)
2022 (98)
2021 (83)
2020 (37)

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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