Distributed Systems Engineer

Available Locations: Bengaluru India

About the role

We are looking for a talented Distributed Systems Engineer to join the Data Localization team. The team builds the infrastructure that enforces where customer data is stored processed and decrypted across one of the largest globally distributed edge networks in the world. The problem is not simply building fast resilient distributed systems; it is building them with provable geographic boundaries that hold under failure at the scale and reliability Cloudflares customers depend on.

You will work across the full stack in Go and Rust from low-level policy enforcement and cryptographic key routing at the edge to customer-facing APIs and dashboards on top of Cloudflares existing infrastructure: the edge fleet globally distributed key-value storage Workers and Durable Objects PostgreSQL Kubernetes and regional ClickHouse. Features ship end-to-end: you will own the design implementation rollout and production operation of the systems you build.

This is a good fit if you are drawn to problems where compliance correctness is a hard constraint and not just a quality goal and where the failure modes you reason about have real consequences for customers operating under regulatory scrutiny.

What youll do

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Responsibilities

(Must-Have Skills)

• 3 years of professional experience designing building and operating production distributed systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in at least one system or backend language such as Go Rust or C/C and a willingness to work in others as the codebase demands.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals including:
• Consistency and consensus models (strong sequential eventual; Paxos / Raft at a conceptual level).
• Replication sharding and partitioning strategies and their tradeoffs against availability and latency.
• Failure modes: partial failure network partitions split brain clock skew and how these show up in real systems.
• Idempotency retries backpressure timeouts circuit breakers and rate limiting as first-class design concerns.
• Health checking failure detection leader election and graceful degradation.
• Observability: metrics logs and tracing as design inputs not afterthoughts.
• Practical experience with API design (REST or gRPC) relational databases and asynchronous messaging or event streaming systems with a clear understanding of transactional and consistency boundaries.
• Comfortable with AI-assisted development tooling with the judgment to use it to accelerate work while remaining accountable for correctness security and design quality
• Track record of production ownership: on-call incident response post-mortems and continuous investment in reliability and performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to write clear design documents and collaborate effectively across time zones.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience building compliance-driven security-sensitive or multi-region systems.
• Familiarity with cryptography basics envelope encryption key management HSMs or PKI.
• Exposure to edge CDN or L4/L7 proxy platforms or to large-scale globally distributed storage or key-value systems.
• Experience contributing to or driving multi-team multi-quarter engineering programs with cross-functional dependencies across platform security and product teams.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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