Distributed Systems Engineer - Cache

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate the high-performance cache and proxy data plane that serves content at
• Contribute to Pingora and the production services built on it, improving asynchronous I/O
• Improve cache correctness and performance through object placement, retention, admission and
• Build globally distributed purge and Tiered Cache systems that invalidate content quickly, select
• Deliver shared platform capabilities and customer-facing APIs and rules for cache keys, TTLs
• Own features end to end: write technical designs, implement services and libraries, add automated

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production software
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Rust, Go, C, or C++, with a
• Strong understanding of HTTP semantics and transport protocols such as TCP, TLS, and QUIC
• Experience designing and implementing secure, resilient, high-performance distributed systems
• Experience with Linux systems, networking, concurrency, and performance analysis
• Track record of production ownership, including monitoring, debugging, on-call, incident response

🎁 Benefits

• San Francisco Estimated Base salary $194,000 - $266,000
• Seattle, Washington D.C., New York Estimated Base salary $185,000 - $254,000
• Denver, Austin, Illinois, Atlanta Estimated Base salary $168,000 - $231,000
• Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan