Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform (Delivery, Database, Retrieval)

working in software development covering distributed systems and databases.

Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks

, including Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong understanding of handling

high-cardinality metrics

Strong knowledge of SQL and database internals

, including experience with database design, optimisation, and performance tuning.

As a Software Engineer in our Data Organisation depending on the team you join, you will focus on a subset of the following areas:

Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable distributed systems across the entire data lifecycle.

Build and optimise key components of our high-throughput data delivery platform to ensure data integrity and low-latency delivery.

Develop new and improve existing components for the Cloudflare Analytical Platform to extend functionality and performance.

Scale, monitor, and maintain the performance of our large-scale database clusters to accommodate the growing volume of data.

Develop and enhance our customer-facing GraphQL APIs, log delivery, and alerting solutions, focusing on performance, reliability, and user experience.

We are looking for experienced and highly motivated engineers to join our DATA Org and help build the future of data at Cloudflare. Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle - from ingestion and processing to storage and retrieval - powering the critical logs and analytics that provide our customers with real-time visibility into the health and performance of their online properties.

Our mission is to empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business. We build and maintain a suite of high-performance, scalable systems that handle more than a billion events in a second. As an engineer in our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data stack.

Our Data Org is composed of several key teams, and you could contribute to any of the following areas:

Data Delivery:

You will build and operate our distributed data delivery pipeline, a high-throughput, low-latency system (primarily written in Go) responsible for ingesting, processing, and routing massive volumes of data from across Cloudflare's global network to multi-core destination.

Analytical Database Platform: