Senior Systems Engineer (Go-To-Market Data Team)

Join Cloudflare's centralized Developer Go-to-Market (GTM) organization as a Senior Systems Engineer. In this role, you will own the GTM-facing software and data products, lead cross-functional projects, and improve the developer buying journey. You will work in a fast-paced environment, design and implement features, build and operate production services, and collaborate across teams. Enjoy competitive pay, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Conception, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring of GTM-facing software and data products.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to coordinate capacity planning, API contracts, and cross-cutting initiatives.
• Ownership of the data foundation, including Query Engine, Workflows, MCP/APIs, and other internal-facing products and services.
• Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, identify the highest-impact technical work, and drive projects autonomously from conception through adoption—balancing pragmatic execution with long-term technical excellence

Requirements

• Please be prepared to discuss specific examples of organization-wide technical initiatives you've led, particularly distributed systems or data infrastructure and their measurable business impact
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives
• Deep analytical SQL and data modeling experience. Proven ability to manage complexity even at thousands of tables
• Able to debug database and query performance issues using profiling tools and source code where applicable
• Deep expertise in building distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale, with proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript
• Previous experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task force teams that operate outside traditional product roadmaps with a focus on enabling GTM organizations

Familiarity with deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes

• Background in SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions
• Experience on Cloudflare Workers / edge platforms and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows

Preferred

• Columnar/OLAP or lakehouse experience (ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, Starrocks).Familiarity with the Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations