Looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design scalable data platforms, develop robust architecture for data management, and collaborate with teams to meet business needs.
Available Locations: Austin, TX
About the role:
We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our growing Data Insights team at Cloudflare and help design and scale data platforms that power decision-making across the business. Success in this role comes from marrying a strong data engineering background with product and business acumen to deliver scalable data pipelines and solutions that can self-service analytics and high-impact business outcomes in a simple and agile manner
What You'll Do:
What You'll Bring:
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Financial Benefits
Time Off
About the role:
We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our growing Data Insights team at Cloudflare and help design and scale data platforms that power decision-making across the business. Success in this role comes from marrying a strong data engineering background with product and business acumen to deliver scalable data pipelines and solutions that can self-service analytics and high-impact business outcomes in a simple and agile manner
What You'll Do:
- Design and implement data solutions that span across on-premise, cloud, or hybrid environments, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance across infrastructure boundaries
- Develop and maintain robust data architecture and infrastructure for capturing, managing, storing, and utilizing structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources
- Create technical tools and automation that leverage big data techniques to cleanse, organize, and transform data, while ensuring data quality and integrity
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams-including Engineering, Product, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience-to align data initiatives with business needs
- Ability to design application components and evolve architecture including UI, API/Services, Data Access, Integration, Application components etc
- Work directly with business and product stakeholders to ensure data solutions meet business objectives and deliver high-quality outcomes
- Analyze platform requirements and provide support for Data Science teams and their workflows
- Build and maintain tools to automate platform monitoring, proactively scale infrastructure, and resolve issues before they impact performance
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience implementing and maintaining hybrid data architectures, including data synchronization and security across on-prem and cloud environments
- 5+ years of experience in big data engineering, working with petabyte-scale datasets and building large-scale data solutions
- Proven experience with tools and technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, Apache Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Scala, and Python
- Strong backend development skills, preferably in Go (Golang) and/or Python
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, collaborative mindset
- Experience in the Internet security industry is preferred
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
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
Top Skills
Airflow
Spark
Docker
Go
Google Cloud Platform
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
Scala
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Denver, Colorado, United States, 80014
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