# Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Python, Distributed Systems, slos, slis, Prometheus, ClickHouse, GraphQL, Postgres, synthetic traffic, load testing, Data Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Build and maintain distributed systems, tooling, and platforms to measure service reliability, SLOs, and interactions at Cloudflare's massive scale. Requires strong programming in Go/Rust/Python and experience with highly-available systems, testing, and cross-team collaboration.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and run tooling and internal platform for engineering teams to measure service and feature reliability.
- Develop and maintain distributed systems to verify interactions between systems and products in production at scale.
- Communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand system behaviors and deliver monitoring and reliability tooling.
- Work closely with product managers and Product Site Reliability Engineers on quality of service measurements for enterprise customers.
- Design, implement, and maintain secure and highly-available distributed systems.
- Develop, document, and execute test and SLO plans, test cases, and test scripts.
- Create and maintain production testing infrastructure and availability reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand system functions and interactions.
- Drive improvements in software development testing processes.
- Provide clear and concise feedback to engineering and product teams.
- Measure uptime metrics like correctness, availability, and latency SLOs/SLIs.

## Requirements
- Proven track record as a software engineer or similar role.
- Programming experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and highly-available distributed systems.
- Ability to develop, document, and execute test and SLO plans, test cases, and test scripts.
- Excellent communication skills.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working with synthetic traffic and load testing tools.
- Experience working with Clickhouse, Prometheus, GraphQL, Postgres.
- Experience working with data pipelines with a focus on reliability and scale.

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