Hiring: Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Cache Company: Cloudflare Location: Atlanta, GA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:55:28 Target Skills & Keywords : C, C++, ClickHouse, Cloudflare, DNS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Load Balancing, PostgreSQL, QUIC, Rust, TLS About the job Experience: •4 years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production software systems •Minimum 4 years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production software systems Required Skills: •Design, build, and operate the high-performance cache and proxy data plane that serves content at Cloudflare's edge and connects to customer origins •Contribute to Pingora and the production services built on it, improving asynchronous I/O, connection handling, memory and disk efficiency, and tail latency •Improve cache correctness and performance through object placement, retention, admission and eviction policies, range-request handling, and resilience to corrupt or incomplete data •Build globally distributed purge and Tiered Cache systems that invalidate content quickly, select efficient cache paths, improve hit rates, and reduce origin load •Deliver shared platform capabilities and customer-facing APIs and rules for cache keys, TTLs, response handling, purge behavior, and programmatic access from Workers •Own features end to end: write technical designs, implement services and libraries, add automated tests and observability, drive staged rollouts, and operate the resulting systems in production •Participate in the team's on-call rotation, lead incident response and post-mortems, and continually improve reliability, capacity, and operational tooling •Reason carefully about failure modes and blast radius, using traffic cohorts, measurable guardrails, and rollback mechanisms to introduce high-impact changes safely Compensation: •$194,000 - $266,000 / 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!