Systems Engineer – Database Platform

Job Description

Company: Cloudflare
Location: Austin, TX (also available in New York, San Francisco)
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: Estimated annual salary of $157,000 – $196,000 (Bay Area) / $150,000 – $187,000 (New York) + Equity

About the Role

At Cloudflare, we run one of the world’s largest networks powering millions of websites and internet properties. The internal Database Platform team manages a multi-region PostgreSQL platform that enables engineers to rapidly build, deploy, and operate services. As a Systems Engineer, you will collaborate with database engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams to evolve our database architecture, automation, scaling, and reliability.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Build and Manage Clusters: Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.
• Develop Tooling: Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Ensure High Availability: Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Observability: Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
• Optimize Performance: Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.

Requirements & Qualifications

• PostgreSQL Experience: Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing high availability failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt).
• Scripting: Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Tooling: Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Containerization: Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Tuning: Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
• Monitoring: Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• Experience developing software in Go, Ruby or C/C++.
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (e.g., Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (e.g., Redis).

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Medical/Rx, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan and Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Comprehensive leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.