# Senior Data Engineer

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

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our Austin team and help scale the development of our internal data products. As a Senior Data Engineer at Cloudflare, you will build data-driven applications that empower teams across the company, including go-to-market, engineering, and product.

## Responsibilities

- Design and implement core components of our data pipelines and services in Go and Scala, with a focus on scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability.

- Partner closely with engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to design solutions for strategic initiatives, business-critical data products, and agentic AI architectures.

- Contribute to the evolution of our data platform architecture, improving scalability, reliability, observability, and data correctness across the stack.

- Build and curate high-quality, well-modeled, and richly contextual datasets that power internal products, predictive analytics, and LLM-enabled features at company scale.

- Develop a deep understanding of the company’s data ecosystem , including source systems, tooling, and data flows , and collaborate closely with the data and system engineers in Austin, Lisbon, and London to improve data ingestion, quality, and governance.

- Lead by example through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship, helping raise the technical bar, data engineering practices, and AI implementation standards across the organization.

## Requirements

- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles, building and operating production data systems.

- Strong programming expertise in Go, Python, or JVM-based languages, with experience writing high-quality, production-grade services and pipelines.

- Deep knowledge of SQL and hands-on experience designing data models and working with relational, analytical, or vector databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse).

- Experience building scalable, reliable, and observable data pipelines, with an understanding of performance, data quality, and operational best practices.

- Proven problem-solving and communication skills, with a track record of driving projects in ambiguous environments and partnering effectively with cross-functional teams.

## Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!

## Company Culture

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Scala
- Python
- JVM-based languages
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- ClickHouse
- data engineering
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- container based deployments
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform
- Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration frameworks

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