Distributed Systems Engineer

We are looking for a talented Distributed Systems Engineer to join the Data Localization team at Cloudflare. The team builds the infrastructure that enforces where customer data is stored, processed, and decrypted across one of the largest globally distributed edge networks in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate production distributed systems at scale
• Strong proficiency in at least one system or backend language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency and consensus models, replication, sharding, and partitioning strategies
• Practical experience with API design, relational databases, and asynchronous messaging or event streaming systems
• Comfortable with AI-assisted development tooling and track record of production ownership
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience building compliance-driven, security-sensitive, or multi-region systems
• Familiarity with cryptography basics
• Exposure to edge, CDN, or L4/L7 proxy platforms
• Experience contributing to or driving multi-team, multi-quarter engineering programs

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

• Project Galileo: equipping journalism and civil society organizations with tools to defend against attacks
• Athenian Project: ensuring state and local governments have high-level protection and reliability for free
• 1.1.1.1: a faster, more secure, and privacy-centric public DNS resolver