Senior System Engineer – Vectorize

What you’ll doThis is a newly found team focused on building out our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network. In this role, you will work with a top-notch engineering team to expand Cloudflare’s capabilities by ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality.

You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, modify how R2 Storage processes requests, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

  • 5+ years experience working with distributed systems or developing on cloud platforms.
  • Experience managing high volume software applications.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
  • Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Rust, or C++.
  • Strong expertise in Machine Learning, including experience with data processing and retrieval algorithms.

Bonus Points

  • Familiarity with Vector Databases and associated Machine Learning Algorithms.
  • Experience working in low-latency real time environments such as game streaming, game engine architecture, high frequency trading, payment systems.
  • Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale Linux-based distributed system

Locations: Austin or Remote US