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Senior Data Engineer

Cloudflare· Business Intelligence
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer role in Cloudflare's Austin, TX hybrid environment, focused on building and scaling internal data products and data pipelines with Go/Scala, contributing to a large-scale data platform and AI-enabled data layers.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core components of data pipelines and services in Go and Scala, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability
  • Partner with engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to design solutions for strategic initiatives, business-critical data products, and agentic AI architectures
  • Contribute to evolution of the data platform architecture, improving scalability, reliability, observability, and data correctness
  • Build and curate high-quality, well-modeled datasets powering internal products, predictive analytics, and LLM-enabled features at scale
  • Develop understanding of the company’s data ecosystem and collaborate with data/system engineers across Austin, Lisbon, and London to improve data ingestion, quality, and governance
  • Lead by example through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to raise technical bar and AI implementation standards

Qualifications

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or related roles
  • Strong programming expertise in Go, Python, or JVM-based languages with production-grade services and pipelines
  • Deep knowledge of SQL and experience designing data models; experience with relational, analytical, or vector databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse)
  • Experience building scalable, reliable, observable data pipelines with focus on performance, data quality, and operational best practices
  • Proven problem-solving and communication skills with track record of driving projects in ambiguous environments and cross-functional collaboration

Skills

Required:GoScalaSQL
Nice to have:Python

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare 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
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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