# Distributed Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, SQL, Prometheus, Grafana, GraphQL, Kafka, Flink, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-07-03

> Software engineer building and scaling customer-facing APIs, near real-time alerting systems, and data analytics tools on Cloudflare's data platform. Requires 3+ years in distributed systems, strong Go/SQL skills, observability expertise (Prometheus/Grafana), and CS fundamentals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance customer-facing APIs focusing on performance, reliability, and intuitive user experience.
- Design, build, and maintain near real-time alerting platform, from data processing and anomaly detection to reliable notification delivery.
- Optimize performance of complex analytical queries powering APIs and dashboards, collaborating with the database platform team.
- Create intuitive tools for customers to explore data and configure alerts based on logs and metrics.
- Scale API and alerting infrastructure to support growing internal and external use cases.
- Collaborate with front-end engineers and product managers to define API contracts and deliver seamless data experience.
- Ensure operational health of APIs and alerting systems through monitoring and on-call rotation (with flexibility outside standard hours).

## Key Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in software development covering distributed systems and scalable APIs.
- Strong programming skills (Go preferred) with best practices for performant, customer-facing services.
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, and handling high-cardinality metrics at scale.
- Strong SQL knowledge with extensive complex query optimization experience.
- Solid computer science foundation in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, willingness to debug and troubleshoot at high scale.
- Ability to collaborate in a team and communicate effectively across teams.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience developing and scaling APIs, particularly GraphQL.
- Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time processing.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform.
- Experience with Linux container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

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