Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! </span></p> </div></div><p><strong>Locations Available: Austin (US)</strong></p> <p><strong>About Role</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Data Org is composed of several key teams, and you could contribute to any of the following areas:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Data Delivery:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Analytical Database Platform:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Contribute to our core analytical platform powered by ClickHouse. This team builds and maintains a high-performance, scalable database platform optimised for the immense analytical workloads generated by our products and services.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Data Retrieval:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Be responsible for building the customer-facing products that make data accessible and actionable. This includes developing our public GraphQL API, building robust log delivery solutions and integrations with customer destinations, and contributing to our alerting products, which empower users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the logs and metrics observed by our data platform.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Software Engineer in our Data Organisation depending on the team you join, you will focus on a subset of the following areas:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 40 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)