Senior Systems Engineer - Go-To-Market Data Team
Owns software and data products supporting Cloudflare’s go-to-market organization, including sales tooling, data foundations, and applied AI. The role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, strong Go and TypeScript skills, distributed-systems expertise, and autonomous cross-functional leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features in Go, TypeScript, and SQL.
- Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes.
- Own the data foundation, including Query Engine, Workflows, MCP/APIs, and other internal-facing products and services.
- Own projects end to end, from design documents and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
- Participate in on-call rotations, drive incident resolution, and write postmortems that improve reliability.
- Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks.
- Collaborate across teams on capacity planning, API contracts, and cross-cutting initiatives.
- Embed with Sales, Marketing, Developer Relations, and Growth to turn operational challenges into shipped software.
- Help set the standard for the GTM engineering organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives.
- Deep expertise building distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale.
- Proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, identify high-impact technical work, and drive projects autonomously from conception through adoption.
- Deep analytical SQL and data-modeling experience, including managing complexity across thousands of tables.
- Ability to debug database and query performance issues using profiling tools and source code where applicable.
- Experience leading organization-wide technical initiatives, particularly distributed systems or data infrastructure projects.
Nice to Have
- Experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task-force teams enabling GTM organizations.
- Columnar/OLAP or lakehouse experience with ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, or StarRocks.
- Familiarity with the Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations.
- Familiarity with deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Cloudflare Workers, edge platforms, and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows.
- Background in SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Medical/Rx, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible spending and commuter spending accounts.
- Fertility and family-forming benefits.
- On-demand mental health support and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Global travel medical insurance.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life and accident insurance.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Employee stock participation plan.
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave.
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
Skills
Go, TypeScript, SQL, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Data Modeling, Query Performance, ClickHouse, Duckdb, BigQuery, Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt, AI Tools
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