Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform - 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: London (UK), Lisbon (Portugal)</strong></p> <p><strong>About Role</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated engineer to join our team and contribute to our analytical database platform. The platform is a critical component of Cloudflare Analytics which provides real-time visibility into the health and performance of Cloudflare customers' online properties.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team builds and maintains a high-performance, scalable database platform powered by ClickHouse, optimized for analytical workloads. We help our customers, both internal and external, to gain a deeper understanding of their online properties, identify trends and patterns, and make informed decisions about how to optimize their web performance, security, and other key metrics. Our mission is to empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Distributed systems engineer - Analytical Database Platform, you will:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop and implement new platform components for the Cloudflare Analytical Database Platform to improve functionality and performance.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Add more database clusters to accommodate the growing volume of data generated by Cloudflare products and services.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monitor and maintain the performance and reliability of existing database platform clusters, and identify and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work to identify and remove bottlenecks within the analytics database platform, including optimizing query performance and streamlining data ingestion processes.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with the ClickHouse open-source community to add new features and functionality to the database, as well as contribute to the development of the upstream codebase.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with other teams across Cloudflare to understand their data needs and build solutions that empower them to make data-driven decisions.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in the development of the next generation of the ... (truncated, view full listing at source)