# Systems Engineer - Database Platform

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $157,000 - $196,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, focusing on our internal, multi-region PostgreSQL platform.

## Company Culture

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet. We value curiosity over bureaucracy and believe AI is a partner in solving tough problems.

## Responsibilities

As a Systems Engineer, you will:

- Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.

- Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.

- Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.

- Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.

## Requirements

### Must-Have Skills

- Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters.

- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.

- Scripting skills in languages like Python or Bash.

- Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.

- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.

- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.

### Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience developing software in Go, Ruby, or C/C++.

- Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.

- Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase, or goose.

- Experience with connection pooling solutions like PgBouncer or HAProxy.

- Familiarity with non-relational data stores like Cassandra, Timescale, or Redis.

## Compensation

- For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $157,000 - $196,000

- For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $187,000

## Benefits

Cloudflare offers a comprehensive package of benefits, including health and welfare benefits, financial benefits, and time-off programs.

## What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're committed to protecting the free and open Internet through initiatives like Project Galileo and the Athenian Project.

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- infrastructure-as-code
- Python
- Bash
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- database performance tuning
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kibana

### Nice to have
- Go
- Ruby
- C/C++
- Flyway
- Liquibase
- goose
- PgBouncer
- HAProxy
- Cassandra
- Timescale
- Redis

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