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# Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Engineering, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, BigQuery, Computer Programming, Distributed Systems, Load Testing, Networking Basics, Routing, Data Storage Technologies, Low Latency, Cloudflare, Codebase, Vertica, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/369302/systems-engineer-maps-california-ca-san-francisco

## About the Role

We are looking for highly motivated software engineers to join our MAPS team. Youll have a strong programming background with a deep understanding and experience developing and maintaining distributed systems. Youll need to be able to communicate effectively with engineers across the company to understand the behaviours of our systems and products in order to deliver tooling to meet their testing needs. You will also work closely with product managers to support our public facing synthetic testing and load testing products for enterprise customers.\n, * Experience as a software engineer or similar role working on latency and efficiency sensitive server infrastructure.\n

 * Experience working with large-scale data pipelines and processing, including use of distributed column-oriented data storage and processing such as ClickHouse, BigQuery/Dremel, etc.\n
 * Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals and routing basics\n
 * Successful track record of collaborating with many teams concurrently to achieve goals that require alignment across a range of teams and orgs.\n
 * Track record of owning problems, goals, and outcomes - not (just) specific pieces of software.\n
 * Track record of building long-term sustainable, maintainable systems.\n
 * Ability to dive deep into technical specifics of systems and codebases, while always keeping the big picture in mind.\n
 * Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, C\n

## Description

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.