# Systems Engineer, MAPS

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** Go, Rust, C, ClickHouse, BigQuery, TCP/IP, Linux, Distributed Systems, Configuration Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-29

> Seeking a Systems Engineer to work on latency and efficiency-sensitive server infrastructure and large-scale data pipelines. The role requires strong networking fundamentals, collaboration skills, and experience with Go, Rust, or C.

## Job Description

## Requirements

* Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.
* Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.
* Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics
* Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.
* Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes - not (just) specific pieces of software.
* Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.
* Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while always keeping the big picture in mind.
* Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C

## Bonuses

* Strong understanding of Linux kernel internals, especially any of: networking, scheduling, resource isolation, virtualization
* Experience troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in large-scale distributed systems.
* Experience with large scale configuration/deployment management.

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