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Senior Data Engineer

cloudflare

In-Office

Engineering

Posted 7 hours ago

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll fit right in.</p> </div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><sup>Title - Senior Data Engineer</sup></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><sup>Job Location - Bengaluru</sup></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><sup>About the team</sup></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>The Data Intelligence &amp; Analytics organization builds the core data platform and internal products that power decision-making across the company. We design and operate large-scale data systems, own the company’s data lake, ingestion infrastructure, and platform tooling, and develop end-to-end applications that transform complex datasets into fast, reliable, business-critical products used daily by go-to-market, product, and engineering teams. Our work sits at the intersection of data platforms, distributed systems, and product development, giving engineers the opportunity to own meaningful problems across the stack, build specialized data solutions for predictive modeling and machine learning applications, and construct systems that truly run the business.</sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>About the role</strong></sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join our Bengaluru team and help scale the development of our internal data products. In this role, you will build data-driven applications that empower teams across the company, including go-to-market, engineering, and product. Because the products we build are initiated and owned by the team, you will be involved end-to-end — from shaping requirements and designing features to implementation and long-term ownership.&nbsp;You will work on building scalable, reliable systems that solve critical business problems, partnering closely with full-stack engineers to develop new features and operate the data pipelines and services behind our applications. Our stack spans multiple languages and technologies, including Go, Scala, and ClickHouse, and continues to evolve. Many of our products also incorporate strong AI components, giving you opportunities to build sophisticated, AI-ready data layers and work with modern AI infrastructure and tools such as vector databases, MCP-based services, and Workers AI.</sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>What you'll do</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Design and implement core components of our data pipelines and services in Go and Scala, with a focus on scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Partner closely with engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to design solutions for strategic initiatives, business-critical data products, and agentic AI architectures.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Contribute to the evolution of our data platform architecture, improving scalability, reliability, observability, and data correctness across the stack.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Build and curate high-quality, well-modeled, and richly contextual datasets that power internal products, predictive analytics, and LLM-enabled features at company scale.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Develop a deep understanding of the company’s data ecosystem — including source systems, tooling, and data flows — and collaborate closely with the data engineering teams in Austin, Lisbon, and London to improve data ingestion, quality, and governance.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Lead by example through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship, helping raise the technical bar, data engineering practices, and AI implementation standards across the organization.</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles, building and operating production data systems.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Strong programming expertise in Go, Python, or JVM-based languages, with experience writing high-quality, production-grade services and pipelines.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Deep knowledge of SQL and hands-on experience designing data models and working with relational, analytical, or vector databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse).</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Experience building scalable, reliable, and observable data pipelines, with an understanding of performance, data quality, and operational best practices.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Proven problem-solving and communication skills, with a track record of driving projects in ambiguous environments and partnering effectively with cross-functional teams.</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Bonus Points</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><em>Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker &amp; Kubernetes.</em></sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><em>Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, foundational Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration frameworks, or something similar.</em></sup></span></p> </li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>What Makes Cloudflare Special?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.</span></p> <p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/"><strong>Project Galileo</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.</span></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/athenian/">Athenian Project</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.</span></p> <p><a href="https://1.1.1.1/"><strong>1.1.1.1</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: We released</span><a href="https://1.1.1.1/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">1.1.1.1</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our</span><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver"> privacy commitment</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.&nbsp; More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. &nbsp;We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. &nbsp;All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. &nbsp;Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. &nbsp;If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hr@cloudflare.com</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.</span></p></div>
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