Distributed Systems Engineer Analytical Database Platform

Locations Available: London (UK) Austin (US)

About Role

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated engineer to join our team and contribute to our analytical database platform. The platform is a critical component of Cloudflare Analytics which provides realtime visibility into the health and performance of Cloudflare customers online properties.

As a Distributed systems engineer Analytical Database Platform you will:

• Develop and implement new platform components for the Cloudflare Analytical Database Platform to improve functionality and performance.

• Add more database clusters to accommodate the growing volume of data generated by Cloudflare products and services.

• Monitor and maintain the performance and reliability of existing database platform clusters and identify and troubleshoot any issues that may arise.

• Work to identify and remove bottlenecks within the analytics database platform including optimizing query performance and streamlining data ingestion processes.

• Collaborate with the ClickHouse opensource community to add new features and functionality to the database as well as contribute to the development of the upstream codebase.

• Collaborate with other teams across Cloudflare to understand their data needs and build solutions that empower them to make datadriven decisions.

• Participate in the development of the next generation of the database platform engine including researching and evaluating new technologies and approaches that can improve the databases performance and scalability.

Key qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and databases.

• Strong programming skills (Golang python C are preferable) as well as a deep understanding of software development best practices and principles.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and database internals including experience with database design optimization and performance tuning.

• A solid foundation in computer science including algorithms data structures distributed systems and concurrency.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment as well as communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare.

• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills as well as the ability to work independently and proactively identify and solve issues.

• Experience with ClickHouse is a plus.

• Experience with SALT or Terraform is a plus.

• Experience with Linux container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

If youre passionate about building scalable and performant databases using cuttingedge technologies and want to work with a worldclass team of engineers then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone!

This role may require flexibility to be oncall outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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