Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, fault tolerance, and partition tolerance

Experience with distributed databases and storage systems

Experience with infrastructure configuration tooling and infrastructure as code

Familiarity with storage fundamentals: block devices, filesystems, SSD characteristics

Experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems

Understanding of network fundamentals as they relate to distributed storage -- bandwidth constraints, latency tradeoffs, cross-datacenter replication

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

In this role, you will help build and operate the next generation of globally distributed storage systems.

You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the stack.

On any given day, you might write a design document for a new provisioning system, model failure domain dependencies across edge locations, benchmark new storage hardware, build standardized observability and runbooks for distributed database clusters, or automate operational toil through purpose-built tooling and intelligent automation.

You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including Rust, Go, Saltstack, and Terraform.

ETI’s Storage Infrastructure team is responsible for the core storage layer that underpins many of ETI's stateful services. Our scope ranges from managing the physical hardware to operating the distributed databases and storage systems built upon it. We run this infrastructure globally across Cloudflare's network, which presents unique and complex engineering puzzles. We navigate efficiently expanding storage capacity, optimizing rebuild operations, and coordinating operations across failure domains to uphold durability. While other service teams focus on product development, our mission is to ensure the underlying storage is reliable, performant, and scalable.

You’ll be joining a highly motivated team that is building the next generation of distributed storage services.

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.