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Senior Systems Engineer, Database Platform

UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Feb 2025

About the role

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!

Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, Lisbon or London

Role Summary

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we’d love to hear from you!

Role Responsibilities

Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Work closely with SRE and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.

Must-Have Skills

Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .

Nice-to-Have Skills

Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
Experience defining and implementing security policies for a RDBMS.
Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
Experience with non-relational data stores such as time-series databases (ex. OpenTSDB) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits