Senior Software Engineer, R2 Metadata
Cloudflare2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features in R2’s distributed metadata system for object put, get, list, and delete operations.
- Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes with strong consistency, durability, and throughput requirements.
- Own schemas, data models, indexing strategies, and query patterns across distributed database clusters managing billions of objects.
- Deliver projects end to end from design documentation and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident resolution, and write reliability-improving postmortems.
- Use AI tools extensively for development, debugging, and operational work.
- Collaborate with storage infrastructure, networking, and platform teams on capacity planning, API contracts, and cross-team initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with distributed databases, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and consistency/performance tradeoffs.
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems with strong reliability requirements.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as object storage, edge computing, or service-oriented architectures.
- Understanding of monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, observability, and incident response practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical decisions and coordinating across teams.
- Comfort using AI coding tools as part of a daily development workflow.
- Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms is preferred.
Benefits
- Position is located in Austin, United States.
- Applicants advancing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub.
- Cloudflare offers equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare builds a global network that provides CDN, DDoS mitigation, DNS, Zero Trust security, and developer/edge computing tools for organizations of all sizes. It sells subscriptions to its cloud-based platform and usage-based services that protect and accelerate web sites, APIs, and corporate networks, plus serverless apps via Workers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: NET).