Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Key Value

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid
Location
Atlanta, GAAustin, TXDenver, CONew York, NYSeattle, WAWashington, DCAmsterdam, Netherlands, NetherlandsLondon, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Salary
$168,000–$231,000 / yr
Posted
67 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Key Value

The Senior Software Engineer - Quicksilver - Distributed Key Value joins the team responsible for Quicksilver, a globally distributed key-value store. In this role, you will write new features, review pull requests, and improve performance regarding CPU and memory usage. You will own the entire stack, including the codebase, unit and integration tests, deployment plans, operations, monitoring, alerting, and debugging. The position requires proficiency in Go and C to solve complex problems like hardware failures and kernel bugs while delivering data to the edge reliably. You must possess experience with storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, or large-scale distributed systems. The work involves maintaining a system that replicates data across tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of data centers to serve billions of keys per second.

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What you'll do

  • Write new features for the distributed key-value store using Go.
  • Review pull requests to ensure code quality and system integrity.
  • Optimize system performance, including CPU and memory usage.
  • Develop and improve monitoring tools and internal infrastructure in Go.
  • Debug and investigate complex, hard-to-reproduce technical problems.
  • Manage the full software stack including deployment, rollback plans, and alerting.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to resolve technical issues outside standard hours.

What we're looking for

  • Write new features and review pull requests in Go and C.
  • Improve performance, CPU, memory usage, and monitoring tools written in Go.
  • Debug and investigate hard-to-reproduce problems across multiple layers of the software stack.
  • Own the full stack including unit/integration tests, deployment, rollback plans, operations, and on-call.
  • Experience writing robust systems, code quality, and managing technical debt (preferred).
  • Experience with storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, large-scale distributed systems, or system programming (preferred).
  • Ability to work autonomously and provide simple, smart designs for complex issues (preferred).
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws.

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