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Software Engineer, R2 Gateway joins the R2 Gateway team to develop and operate the S3-compatible API gateway for Cloudflare’s object storage platform. This role involves building request-path systems that manage authentication, routing, rate limiting, and error handling while ensuring low-latency, high-availability access at scale. You will design and implement production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to handle high-throughput traffic across the storage and metadata layers. The ideal candidate possesses strong programming skills in Rust, TypeScript, or Go, along with experience in distributed systems, edge computing, and service-oriented architectures. Key responsibilities include managing the full project lifecycle from design to monitoring while utilizing AI tools for development and debugging. You will solve complex infrastructure problems by maintaining strict S3 API compatibility and improving the reliability of critical request-path components within a global network.
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Design and operate the S3-compatible API gateway to ensure low latency and high availability for R2 operations.
Build production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes to handle high-throughput request traffic.
Manage the full request path including authentication, authorization, routing, rate limiting, and error handling.
Own projects end-to-end 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 reliability 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 (preferred).
Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems on the request path with high reliability requirements (preferred).
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts like object storage, HTTP/API gateways, edge computing, or service-oriented architectures (preferred).
Experience designing and operating high-throughput APIs including authentication, routing, rate limiting, and backward-compatible evolution (preferred).
Understanding of reliability and observability practices such as monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response (preferred).
Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical decisions and coordinate across teams.
Experience with the S3 API surface, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms is a strong plus.
Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Rust
TypeScript
Go
Cloudflare Workers
Kubernetes
S3 API
Distributed Systems
Edge Computing
Object Storage
API Gateways
HTTP
Rate Limiting
Monitoring
Alerting
Incident Response
AI Tools
Rust
Go
C++
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
MySQL
TCP/IP
TLS
WebSockets
Linux
eBPF
PgBouncer
ProxySQL
Cloudflare Workers
ORMs
Distributed Systems
Profiling Tools