Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases
Cloudflare, Hybrid +6
The role
Cloudflare's Developer Platform powers stateful, data-intensive applications across our network. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work across the database stack, from query planning and execution to transaction processing and durable storage.
You'll make decisions that shape the consistency, durability, and latency guarantees that customer applications rely on.
Correctness under concurrency and failure is central to the role. You'll define and implement how queries read and modify data, how concurrent transactions become visible, and how durable state is recovered. You'll validate these systems using deterministic simulation, workload testing, and evidence from production.
What you will do
- Improve query planning and execution, including index selection, row reads and writes, and performance as data volumes and access patterns change.
- Build transaction and storage paths that make writes durable and reads consistent. Define when changes become visible, how commits survive failure, and how recovery restores a correct view of the data.