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The Software Engineer, R2 Gateway joins the R2 Gateway team to develop the request-facing layer of Cloudflare's object storage platform. You will design, implement, and operate the S3-compatible API gateway, managing critical functions including authentication, request routing, rate limiting, and error handling. The role involves building production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to ensure low-latency, highly available access to storage and metadata layers. You will own projects from design through production monitoring while collaborating with networking and infrastructure teams. Required technical skills include proficiency in Rust, TypeScript, or Go, along with experience in large-scale distributed systems, edge computing, and high-throughput APIs. You must be comfortable using AI tools to accelerate development and debugging within this complex storage infrastructure environment.
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Design, implement, and operate the S3-compatible API gateway to ensure low-latency and high availability.
Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to handle high-throughput traffic.
Manage the end-to-end request path including authentication, authorization, routing, rate limiting, and error handling.
Own projects from initial design documentation through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of the gateway while reducing operational toil.
Participate in on-call rotations, resolve incidents, and write postmortems to improve reliability standards.
Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks.
What we're looking for
3-4 years of experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems on the request path with strong latency and reliability requirements (preferred).
Strong programming skills in Rust, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages (preferred).
Experience designing and operating high-throughput APIs including authentication, routing, rate limiting, and backward-compatible API evolution (preferred).
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as object storage, HTTP/API gateways, edge computing, or service-oriented architectures (preferred).
Understanding of reliability and observability practices including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response (preferred).
Experience with the S3 API surface, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms (preferred).
Ability to use AI coding tools as a core part of a daily development workflow (preferred).
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