Senior Systems Engineers – Basin (Pipelines, SQL, Catalog) at Cloudflare
On-site
Core
Building the core of a serverless data platform (Basin) including streaming ingestion, SQL transforms, and a distributed query engine.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Distributed Systems / Data Platform)
Builds
Serverless data platform components (Pipelines, Catalog, SQL engine) and durable event streams
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, Data engineering, Distributed systems
Required skills
Rust, C++, Distributed systems, Streaming systems, Storage systems, SQL, Apache Iceberg, DataFusion, Arrow, Parquet, Arroyo, R2
Preferred skills
Query engines, Storage engines
Responsibilities
Design and implement streaming ingestion and SQL transform engines; Develop and maintain a managed Iceberg REST catalog; Build a distributed query engine; Work on durable event stream buffers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
