Senior Software Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Austin, TXLondon, United Kingdom
Posted
9 days ago
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Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, R2 Gateway, you will join the R2 Gateway team to develop and operate the S3-compatible API gateway for Cloudflare’s object storage platform. You will be responsible for the request-facing layer where every operation flows through, ensuring high availability, low latency, and strict compatibility with the S3 API surface. Your daily work involves designing and implementing production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to manage authentication, routing, rate limiting, and error handling. To succeed in this role, you should possess strong programming skills in Rust, TypeScript, or Go, along with experience in distributed systems, edge computing, and high-throughput APIs. You will also utilize AI tools extensively to accelerate development and debugging while collaborating across teams to manage infrastructure, metadata layers, and complex networking requirements for the R2 storage platform.

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What you'll do

  • Design and operate the S3-compatible API gateway to ensure low latency and high availability.
  • Build production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to handle high-throughput request traffic.
  • Manage the end-to-end request path including authentication, routing, rate limiting, and error handling.
  • Own projects from initial design documentation through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of gateway systems while reducing operational toil.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents and write postmortems to improve standards.
  • Integrate AI tools into daily workflows to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks.

What we're looking for

  • Strong programming skills in Rust, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems on the request path with high reliability requirements.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts including object storage, HTTP/API gateways, edge computing, or service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience designing and operating high-throughput APIs involving authentication, routing, rate limiting, and backward-compatible evolution.
  • Understanding of reliability and observability practices such as monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response.
  • Ability to use AI tools extensively for development, debugging, and operational tasks.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical decisions and coordinate across teams.
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws.

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