Distributed Systems Engineer, Analytical Database Platform
Build and scale distributed data platforms, database systems, delivery services, and APIs, with emphasis on reliability, performance, observability, and data integrity. Requires 3+ years of software development experience with distributed systems and databases; Golang experience is preferred.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable distributed systems across the data lifecycle.
- Build and optimize high-throughput data delivery components for data integrity and low-latency delivery.
- Develop and improve components of the Cloudflare Analytical Platform.
- Scale, monitor, and maintain large-scale database clusters.
- Develop customer-facing GraphQL APIs, log delivery, and alerting solutions.
- Identify and remove bottlenecks in data ingestion and query performance.
- Collaborate across teams to build data-driven solutions.
- Contribute features and code to the ClickHouse open-source project.
- Research and evaluate technologies for next-generation data platforms.
- Participate in an on-call rotation outside standard working hours as needed.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software development experience with distributed systems and databases.
- Strong programming skills; Golang preferred.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus and Grafana, including high-cardinality metrics at scale.
- Strong SQL knowledge and understanding of database internals, design, optimization, and performance tuning.
- Foundation in computer science, algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective collaboration and communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- ClickHouse experience.
- Data streaming technologies such as Kafka or Flink.
- Scalable API development, particularly GraphQL.
- Infrastructure as Code tools such as Salt or Terraform.
- Linux container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Compensation
- Portugal-based hires: €54,000–€91,000 annually.
- Colorado-based hires: $136,000–$187,000 annually.
- Washington-based hires: $150,000–$206,000 annually.
- Compensation may vary by work location.
- Eligible for participation in the company equity plan.
- Benefits include health, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility and family-forming, mental-health, travel medical, disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and leave programs.
Skills
Go, Distributed Systems, Databases, Prometheus, Grafana, SQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Flink, GraphQL, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
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