Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: California, New York, Texas, Washington.
Location as listed by the employer: “Hybrid; Austin, TX; London, United Kingdom; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA”
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About this role

Cloudflare is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • You have owned a database, storage engine, transaction system, or similarly correctness-sensitive stateful system from architecture through production. You can make architecture and implementation decisions when require…
  • You understand how query execution, indexing, transaction processing, and durable state shape what developers and operators observe.
  • You understand how concurrency control, isolation, replication, and snapshots shape consistency, durability, and recovery. You can apply those concepts when operations arrive out of order, components fail independently,…
  • You write and debug concurrent production software in Rust, Go, C++, or another systems language. You can trace failures across process, network, and durable-state boundaries.
  • You have operated stateful systems through rollouts, scaling events, incidents, and recovery. You know the difference between transient unavailability and incomplete or incorrect recovery, and when a system is safe to r…
  • You have led investigations where failures crossed systems owned by several teams.

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