Senior Software Engineer Durable Objects DO
Senior Software Engineer Durable Objects DO
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Job Description
At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Available Locations: Austin Texas Lisbon Portugal London UK
About the Department
Cloudflares Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team is where bold innovative products are built and launched. Rather than being limited by the structures of a large established business we leverage Cloudflares global edge network to solve problems at an unparalleled scale and efficiency.
What Youll Do
In this role you will build Durable Objects the Cloudflare Developer Platforms product for building stateful serverless applications. As a member of this topnotch systems engineering team you will design and develop the lowlevel routing and storage systems that power Cloudflares customers ability to build and scale. Your job is to drive the continual evolution of the system which improves reliability performance and provides new features. For a recent summary of these changes take a look at this.
As a key engineer on this team you will:
- Build the Durable Objects runtime which enables Cloudflare customers to build realtime chat applications multiplayer games and AI agents.
- Improve reliability scalability and performance by developing new system capabilities.
- Own your code endtoend from design to production.
- Solve complex technical challenges with production distributed systems.
- Develop software in JavaScript TypeScript Rust and C.
What Were Looking For
- 5 years of experience writing systems software.
- Operational mindset we dont just write code we own it in production.
- Strong foundation in data structures algorithms and system design.
- Deep expertise in at least one systems programming language (e.g. C/C or Rust).
- Experience designing and architecting largescale distributed systems.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms particularly serverless architectures.
- Experience as a technical leader or team lead driving engineering decisions.
Bonus Points
- Experience working on database internals (specifically SQLite).
- Deep understanding of web technologies (browsers HTTP JavaScript WebAssembly).
- Background in lowlatency realtime environments (e.g. game streaming highfrequency trading payment systems).
- Experience debugging optimizing and identifying failure modes in largescale Linuxbased distributed systems.
This is a highimpact role for engineers who thrive in fastpaced distributed environments and want to shape the future of cloud computing. If that sounds like you wed love to hear from you!
What Makes Cloudflare Special
Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customersat no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their or any other persons perceived or actual race color religion sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship age physical or mental disability medical condition family care status or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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Senior IC
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