Senior Systems Engineer, Cloudflare
Basin Platform
$185-254k
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-254k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of experience working with distributed systems
- Experience building and managing high-volume software applications
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design
- Knowledge of at least one modern strongly typed programming language; the team primarily uses Rust, TypeScript, and Go
- Experience debugging, optimizing, and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system
Desirable
- Experience building and managing a large-scale data storage platform
- Experience working in low-latency, real-time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high-frequency trading, or payment systems
- Experience working in a non-garbage-collected language such as Rust or C++
- Experience writing JavaScript and TypeScript
- Deep Linux/UNIX systems knowledge
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer focused on Cloudflare's storage and database products, you will shape the future of services that redefine what is possible for developers. The team works backward from developer needs, reimagining solutions by leveraging Cloudflare's global network to bring data closer to users, meet data residency requirements, and create innovative data products
- You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. You might architect a globally distributed data consistency model, optimize storage engine performance, or design a novel API for a data-centric product
- The Emerging Technologies & Incubation department builds and releases new products, leveraging Cloudflare's global edge and network to deliver new tools and products to customers
- Basin Catalog manages Iceberg table metadata and performs ongoing table maintenance, such as compaction, to keep queries fast
- Basin SQL is an in-house distributed SQL engine built to run petabyte-scale queries over data stored in R2
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with over 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
And impressive third-quarter 2025 results show strong momentum, with revenue rising to $562 million from $430 million a year earlier. The company also raised its full-year guidance, underscoring confidence in continued growth. As demand for secure, cloud-based infrastructure keeps growing, Cloudflare's expanding platform and improving efficiency leave it well positioned to capture further gains in a rapidly growing market.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
- Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
- Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
- Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
- Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
- Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Co-Founder & Lead Engineer)Lee began their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(Co-Founder, President & Co-Chair)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(Co-Founder & CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare in 2009, where he has served as CEO ever since.
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