Cloudflare
Senior Systems Engineer, Basin Pipelines
$185K–$266K
In-Office +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2025
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
London, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States
Seattle, WA - Experience
- Minimum 5+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Design and build foundational storage and streaming infrastructure for Cloudflare Basin Pipelines, which ingests, transforms, and loads streaming data into Apache Iceberg or Parquet in R2.
What you'll do
- Design and implement foundational layers of large-scale data services, including distributed consistency models and storage engine performance.
- Build and deliver software across the stack, owning code from inception through release.
- Develop core storage or streaming system components and debug infrastructure-level failures.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years designing, building, and deploying internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch.
- Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
- Proven ability to debug, profile, and fix complex race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure layer.
- Expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ for systems programming.
Nice to have
- Experience building time-series databases, log-structured merge-trees, or real-time stream processing engines from the ground up.
- Academic or professional contributions to distributed systems research, such as consensus, CRDTs, or database theory.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
Apache Iceberg, Parquet, R2, JavaScript, Typescript, Rust, C++
AI focus
The posting describes AI as a company-wide development partner and encourages AI-native curiosity and using the latest tools to create solutions; it does not specify AI work for this role.
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