# Senior Software Engineer - Quicksilver - Distributed Key Value

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, New York, NY, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, C, Distributed Systems, Storage Systems, Peer-To-Peer Systems, Systems Programming, Key-Value Stores, Performance Optimization, Monitoring, Integration Testing
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Build and operate Quicksilver, Cloudflare’s globally distributed key-value store, developing features in Go and C while improving performance, monitoring, reliability, and debugging across the full systems stack. The role requires distributed or systems programming experience, strong engineering judgment, and willingness to participate in on-call support.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop new features for Cloudflare’s globally distributed Quicksilver key-value store using **Go**.
- Review pull requests and contribute to robust, high-quality systems code.
- Improve system performance, including CPU and memory utilization.
- Improve monitoring and operational tools written in Go.
- Debug and investigate difficult, hard-to-reproduce problems across multiple layers of the software stack.
- Own and support the full stack, including code, unit and integration tests, deployment and rollback plans, operations, monitoring, alerting, debugging, and on-call support.
- Participate in incident response, including during nonstandard hours.

## Requirements
- Experience writing robust systems with attention to code quality, performance, and technical debt.
- Experience with storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, large-scale distributed systems, or systems programming.
- Ability to investigate issues across multiple software-stack layers.
- Ability to work autonomously and design simple, pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
- Enjoyment of both low-level and high-level programming.
- Strong collaboration skills, including giving and receiving constructive design feedback.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with **C**.
- Experience operating globally distributed systems across challenging network conditions, hardware failures, or kernel bugs.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Denver-based hires: estimated annual salary of **$168,000 ~ $210,000**.
- Washington, D.C., New York, and Seattle-based hires: estimated annual salary of **$185,000 ~ $231,000**.
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- Eligible to participate in the company equity plan.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending and commuter accounts; fertility and family-forming benefits; mental health support; disability, life, and accident insurance; 401(k); employee stock participation; flexible paid time off; and parental, pregnancy, medical, and bereavement leave.

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