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# Distributed Systems Engineer

- **Company:** CloudFlare
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Relational Databases, Software Design Documents, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Key Management, Public Key Infrastructure, Message Oriented Middleware, Backend, Functional Dependencies, Api Design
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/368960/senior-distributed-systems-engineer-california-ca-san-francisco

## About the Role

* 5+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems at scale.\n
 * 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.\n
 * Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including:\n, 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.\n

Comfortable with AI-assisted development tooling, with the judgment to use it to accelerate work while remaining accountable for correctness, security, and design quality\n

Track record of production ownership: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous investment in reliability and performance.\n

Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to write clear design documents and collaborate effectively across time zones.\n\n
\nNice-to-Have Skills\n
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 * Experience building compliance-driven, security-sensitive, or multi-region systems.\n
 * Familiarity with cryptography basics envelope encryption, key management, HSMs, or PKI.\n
 * Exposure to edge, CDN, or L4/L7 proxy platforms, or to large-scale globally distributed storage or key-value systems.\n
 * Experience contributing to or driving multi-team, multi-quarter engineering programs with cross-functional dependencies across platform, security, and product teams.\n