# System Engineer, Cloudflare Hyperdrive

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet.

We are seeking a System Engineer to join our Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team, focusing on building out our brand-new vector database offering.

As a System Engineer, you will work with a top-notch engineering team to expand Cloudflare's capabilities, ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality.

Responsibilities:

- Write design documents outlining solutions to specific problems

- Modify how R2 Storage processes requests

- Fix bugs in user experience rendering

- Interact with various languages and technologies, including Typescript, Go, Rust

- Own code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack

Requirements:

- 5+ years experience working with distributed systems or developing on cloud platforms

- Experience managing high-volume software applications

- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design

- Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language, such as Go, Rust, or C++

- Strong expertise in Machine Learning, including experience with data processing and retrieval algorithms

Nice to Have:

- Familiarity with Vector Databases and associated Machine Learning Algorithms

- Experience working in low-latency real-time environments, such as game streaming or high-frequency trading

- Experience debugging, optimizing, and identifying failure modes in large-scale Linux-based distributed systems

About the Department: Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare.

What Makes Cloudflare Special:

- Protecting the free and open Internet

- Projects like Project Galileo, Athenian Project, and 1.1.1.1

Benefits:

- Opportunities for growth and development

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

- Flexible work arrangements

Note: Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare offices or hubs.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- cloud platforms
- computer science fundamentals
- strongly-typed programming languages
- Machine Learning

### Nice to have
- Vector Databases
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- low-latency real-time environments
- large-scale Linux-based distributed systems

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