CareerPlan

Senior Systems Engineer, Pipelines

Austin, TXFull-time$185k2026-07-16 → 2026-11-11
Based in United StatesU.S. persons only (export control)

Core

Design and implement foundational layers of next-generation distributed data services and storage engines from scratch.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Distributed Systems/Storage)

Builds

Core storage and streaming products for Cloudflare's global network

Domain

Internet infrastructure, distributed systems, storage engines

Required skills

Systems programming, distributed system design, storage engine architecture, debugging complex race conditions, network partition handling, Rust, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript

Preferred skills

Time-series databases, log-structured merge-trees, real-time stream processing, distributed systems research (consensus, CRDTs)

Technologies

Rust, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript

Responsibilities

Architect globally distributed data consistency models, optimize storage engine performance, design novel APIs for data-centric products, own code from inception to release

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC