Hiring: Senior Systems Engineer, Pipelines Company: Cloudflare Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:55:28 Target Skills & Keywords : C++, Cloudflare, DNS, Databricks, Flink, JavaScript, Kafka, Rust, Snowflake, Spark, TypeScript About the job Experience: •6+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying the internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch. Required Skills: •Is this role a fit for you? •As a Senior Systems Engineer focused on Cloudflare's core storage and streaming products, you will design and implement the foundational layers of our next-generation data services. We work backward from developer needs, reimagining solutions by leveraging our unique global network. •Desirable Skills, Knowledge, And Experience •Minimum 6+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying the internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch. •Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system. •Demonstrated success in debugging, profiling, and fixing complex race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure layer. •Deep, expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ applied to systems programming. Qualifications: •Academic or professional contributions to distributed systems research (e.g., consensus, conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), or database theory). Compensation: •$185,000 - $254,000 / 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!