Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Key Value

Cloudflare, Inc

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Atlanta, GAAustin, TXDenver, CONew York, NYSeattle, WAWashington, DC
Salary
$168,000–$231,000 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Key Value

Senior Software Engineer - Quicksilver - Distributed Key Value will join the team responsible for Quicksilver, a globally distributed key-value store that replicates data across tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of data centers. In this role, you will develop new features in Go, perform code reviews, and improve system performance regarding CPU and memory usage. You will also build monitoring tools in Go and investigate complex, hard-to-reproduce bugs within the stack. The work involves managing a high-scale distributed system that must remain reliable despite network issues, hardware failures, and kernel bugs. To succeed, you must possess experience in storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, or general system programming. You will utilize Go and C to maintain the codebase while ensuring data is delivered reliably to the edge for billions of keys per second.

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What you'll do

  • Develop new features and perform code reviews for the Quicksilver distributed key-value store using Go.
  • Optimize system performance including CPU usage, memory management, and overall efficiency.
  • Build and improve monitoring tools and internal systems written in Go.
  • Debug and investigate complex, hard-to-reproduce technical issues across multiple layers of the software stack.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of the codebase, including unit/integration testing, deployment plans, and rollbacks.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to resolve production issues and manage system alerts.

What we're looking for

  • Experience writing robust systems with a focus on code quality and performance.
  • Proven experience with storage systems, peer-to-peer systems, or large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in system programming across both low-level and high-level languages.
  • Ability to write new features and improve monitoring tools using Go and C.
  • Experience debugging and investigating complex problems across multiple layers of a software stack.
  • Capability to design simple and smart solutions for complex technical issues.
  • Willingness to engage in on-call rotations and respond to outages during non-standard hours.
  • Authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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