Senior Systems Engineer - Go-To-Market Data Team

The role

You will own GTM-facing software and data products, including the data foundation and signals for sales reps. The work involves data engineering, full-stack product, and applied AI built on Cloudflare's developer platform.

What you will do

• Design and implement features in a Golang, Typescript and SQL.
• Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes.
• Own the data foundation including Query Engine, Workflows, MCP/APIs and other internal facing products and services.
• Own projects end to end from design docs and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Participate in on call rotations, drive incident resolution, and write postmortems.
• Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks.
• Collaborate across teams to coordinate capacity planning, API contracts, and cross cutting initiatives.
• Embed with Sales, Marketing, Developer Relations (DevRel), and Growth to turn operational pain into shipped software.
• Help set the standard for GTM engineering organization wide.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives.
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and drive projects autonomously.
• Deep analytical SQL and data modeling experience.
• Ability to debug database and query performance issues using profiling tools and source code.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task force teams.
• Columnar/OLAP or lakehouse experience (ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, Starrocks).
• Familiarity with the Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations.
• Familiarity with deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes.
• Experience on Cloudflare Workers / edge platforms and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows.
• Background in SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Before you apply

• Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.
• Offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

About the company

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties. The company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.