Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: Texas.
Location as listed by the employer: “In-Office; Austin, TX”
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About this role
Cloudflare is hiring for a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer role. See the official posting for full details.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in at least one system or backend language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++, and a willingness to work in others as the codebase demands.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including:
- Consistency and consensus models (strong, sequential, eventual; Paxos / Raft at a conceptual level).
- Replication, sharding, and partitioning strategies, and their tradeoffs against availability and latency.
- Failure modes: partial failure, network partitions, split brain, clock skew, and how these show up in real systems.
- Idempotency, retries, backpressure, timeouts, circuit breakers, and rate limiting as first-class design concerns.
- Health checking, failure detection, leader election, and graceful degradation.
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