Senior Systems Engineer, Pipelines

Posted about 3 months ago · $185,000 - $254,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 80 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: Yes
Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare: high
Hiring momentum: 494 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-10-22

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About this role

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, you will design and implement foundational layers for next-generation data services, focusing on the Basin Pipelines project. Your role involves writing code for new data services, optimizing performance, and architecting solutions that leverage Cloudflare's global network. You will work with various programming languages and technologies, ensuring that your code empowers Cloudflare's customers from inception to release.

Our read on this posting4.2out of 5

benefits: 5/5
freshness: 1/5
career value: 5/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 5/5

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What you need

Minimum 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying the internals of large-scale distributed systems or storage engines from scratch.
Direct experience writing core components of a storage or streaming system.
Proven track record of debugging, profiling, and fixing complex race conditions, split-brain scenarios, and network partition failures at the infrastructure layer.
Deep, expert-level proficiency in Rust or C++ applied to systems programming.

Nice to have

Experience building time-series databases, log-structured merge-trees, or real-time stream processing engines from the ground up.
Academic or professional contributions to distributed systems research (e.g., consensus, conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), or database theory).

What you get

Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

Worth weighing

No salary listed for the position outside of specific locations.
Focus on building infrastructure software from scratch may not appeal to those with experience in managing existing platforms.
The role emphasizes a strong preference for coding over operating existing systems, which may limit candidates with a different background.

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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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