Hiring: Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform (Delivery, Database, Retrieval) Company: Cloudflare Location: Denver, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:55:28 Target Skills & Keywords : C++, ClickHouse, Cloudflare, DNS, Data Pipeline, Docker, Event-Driven, Flink, Go, Grafana, GraphQL, Infrastructure as Code, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Rust, SQL, Terraform About the job Experience: •ClickHouse or another large-scale analytical database. •Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming technologies. •GraphQL or other high-volume API technologies. •Terraform, Salt, or other Infrastructure as Code tooling. •Docker, Kubernetes, or Linux container technologies. Required Skills: •Cloudflare’s Data Org builds the systems that ingest, process, store, and retrieve data generated across our global network. These systems power the logs, analytics, and alerts that give customers near real-time visibility into the security, reliability, and performance of their Internet properties. •Analytical database systems: Building and operating our ClickHouse-based analytical platform, improving database performance, reliability, and scalability. •Data delivery and retrieval: Building streaming pipelines, public APIs, log delivery integrations, and alerting systems that make customer data accessible and actionable. •Design, build, and operate reliable distributed systems that process very large volumes of data. •Develop and optimise backend services and data platform components, primarily in Go. •Improve data integrity, delivery latency, query performance, availability, and operational efficiency. •Build systems that handle failure safely through techniques such as backpressure, retries, idempotency, replication, and graceful degradation. •Define service-level objectives, monitor production health, plan capacity, and respond to incidents. Compensation: •$136,000 - $187,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!