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title: 'Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform at Cloudflare Events'
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# Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform at Cloudflare Events

- **Company:** Cloudflare Events
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/careersday/jobs/8279026?gh_jid=8279026

## Job description

Available Locations

- Atlanta, US
- Austin, US
- Denver, US
- Lisbon, Portugal
- London, UK
- Seattle, US
- Washington DC, US

Applications will be accepted until November 23, 2026.

## About the Role

Cloudflare’s Data Org builds the systems that ingest, process, store, and retrieve data generated across our global network. These systems power the logs, analytics, and alerts that give customers near real-time visibility into the security, reliability, and performance of their Internet properties.

We are looking for systems-oriented backend engineers who enjoy solving distributed-systems problems at large scale. You will build primarily in Go, operate the systems you create, and work across the data lifecycle, from high-throughput ingestion and delivery to analytical storage and customer-facing retrieval.

Engineers in this role typically develop depth in one of two areas:

- Analytical database systems: Building and operating our ClickHouse-based analytical platform, improving database performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Data delivery and retrieval: Building streaming pipelines, public APIs, log delivery integrations, and alerting systems that make customer data accessible and actionable.

We are looking for strong backend and systems fundamentals, production operational experience, and demonstrated depth in at least one of these areas.

## What You’ll Do

- Design, build, and operate reliable distributed systems that process very large volumes of data.
- Develop and optimise backend services and data platform components, primarily in Go.
- Improve data integrity, delivery latency, query performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
- Build systems that handle failure safely through techniques such as backpressure, retries, idempotency, replication, and graceful degradation.
- Define service-level objectives, monitor production health, plan capacity, and respond to incidents.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks across ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval.

Depending on your area of focus:

- Build and operate large-scale ClickHouse clusters and contribute improvements to the ClickHouse ecosystem.
- Develop data delivery pipelines that route data from Cloudflare’s global network to customer destinations.
- Build and scale GraphQL APIs, log delivery integrations, and near real-time alerting products.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand their data needs and design pragmatic solutions.
- Evaluate technologies and contribute to the next generation of Cloudflare’s data platform.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for the production systems owned by your team.

## What We’re Looking For

- At least three years of professional software engineering experience building backend, infrastructure, database, or distributed-data systems.
- Strong Go programming skills, or substantial systems programming experience (Rust, C++) with the ability to become productive in Go quickly.
- Experience building and operating production services, including deployment, monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and debugging.
- A solid understanding of distributed-systems concepts, including concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, and data integrity.
- Experience with high-throughput or low-latency data processing.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, including monitoring high-cardinality workloads.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, particularly for complex production problems.
- Clear communication and an ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.

Demonstrated depth in at least one of the following areas:

- Database systems: SQL, analytical databases, database internals, query optimisation, performance tuning, or operating large database clusters.
- Data delivery and retrieval: Streaming systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, API development, or customer-facing data integrations.

Helpful Experience

- ClickHouse or another large-scale analytical database.
- Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming technologies.
- GraphQL or other high-volume API technologies.
- Terraform, Salt, or other Infrastructure as Code tooling.
- Docker, Kubernetes, or Linux container technologies.
- Contributions to open-source database or distributed-systems projects.

If you enjoy building efficient systems, understanding how they behave in production, and solving data problems at global scale, we would like to hear from you.

## Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

- For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €54,000 - €91,000.
- For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $156,000 - $215,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

## Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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## About Cloudflare Events

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cloudflare is a global cloud connectivity platform that provides security, performance, and reliability services for millions of Internet properties.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: NET)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Cloud infrastructure, network security, content delivery, edge computing, Zero Trust / SASE.
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprises, small and medium businesses, developers, and independent website owners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Help build a better Internet.” ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))

## Products & Services
- **Cloudflare CDN & Security**: Protects websites from attacks and optimizes performance. Core service that proxies ~20% of the web’s traffic. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))
- **Cloudflare Zero Trust / SASE**: Connects and secures employees, devices, networks, apps, and data anywhere, delivering Internet-native Zero Trust and unified SSE/SASE. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))
- **Cloudflare Workers**: Serverless compute and full-stack development platform with integrated compute, storage, and networking. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))
- **Cloudflare Network Services**: Fast app delivery, infrastructure security, and network optimization built on a global network spanning 335 cities in 125+ countries. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from the provided search results (public financials available in SEC filings).
- **Key Metric**: Publicly traded company; annual revenue reported in quarterly earnings (not detailed in provided sources).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 3,800+ team members across 30+ countries, growing every quarter. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
  - Thousands of new customers sign up daily. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))
  - Expanding across the Middle East and Africa — new roles opening every month. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
  - Hosts major events like Cloudflare Connect SF 2026 and Immerse series globally. ([cloudflare.com/events](https://www.cloudflare.com/events/))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive scale**: Serves average of 102 million HTTP requests per second; proxies ~20% of the web’s traffic. ([cloudflare.com/about](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/))
- **Global reach**: Network in 335 cities across 125+ countries, putting infrastructure within milliseconds of nearly everyone on Earth.
- **Unified platform**: 60+ services (SASE, security, performance, full-stack) running on a single global network; code pushes instantly affect millions of properties with zero downtime.
- **Developer ecosystem**: Cloudflare Workers enables serverless compute at the edge, attracting a large developer community.

## Strategic Focus
- **Hybrid/distributed work model**: Evolving into a hybrid model with in-hub, hybrid, and fully distributed roles across 18+ offices worldwide. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
- **Geographic expansion**: Rapid hiring in Middle East, Africa, and Latin America; new hubs growing fastest. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in SASE, Zero Trust, edge computing, and AI capabilities (e.g., AI stipend for employees). ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & recognition**: Named a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace for 2022, 2023, and 2024; also recognized for Parents, Caregivers, Young Professionals, and LGBTQ+. ([cloudflare.com/careers/life-at-cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/life-at-cloudflare/))
- **Flexible work options**: Choose between In-Hub (regular office days), Hybrid (few days in hub), or Distributed (fully remote in your country). ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
- **Benefits**: 16 weeks paid parental leave (all qualifying new parents), take-what-you-need vacation, commuter program, AI credits stipend, competitive total rewards including stock ownership. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))
- **Engineering culture**: “Orange Cloud Interview” focuses on values like transparency, curiosity, principles, empathy, and diversity. Employee Resource Groups foster belonging. ([cloudflare.com/careers/life-at-cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/life-at-cloudflare/))
- **Global team**: Colleagues across 30+ countries with 12 hubs in Europe, APAC, and Americas; collaboration spans all time zones. ([cloudflare.com/careers](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/))

## Sources
1. [Cloudflare Events Page](https://www.cloudflare.com/events/)
2. [Cloudflare Careers Page](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/)
3. [Cloudflare Life at Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/life-at-cloudflare/)
4. [Cloudflare Jobs Open Positions](https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/)
5. [Cloudflare About Page](https://www.cloudflare.com/about/)

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