Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

Position Location: Austin TX Lisbon Portugal London UK

Role Summary

Join the Workers Deploy & Config team the engine behind Cloudflares unique serverless edge-computing developer platform. This isnt just another backend role; youll be building the critical large-scale systems that empower developers worldwide to deploy everything - from a personal static site to full-stack applications serving millions of fact youll be building the very foundation that the rest of our developer platformfrom Pages to R2is built upon.

You will tackle the complex challenges of distributed systems and high-traffic APIs every single day. Your mission To build and scale the platform that lets customers upload configure and manage their Workers ensuring its incredibly fast extremely resilient and scales effortlessly. Youll drive projects from the initial idea to global release delivering solutions at every layer of the stack. Youll get to master a diverse and modern tech stack writing high-performance Go architecting APIs optimizing storage interactions building Workers with JavaScript/TypeScript and managing it all on Kubernetes.

Were looking for engineers who are obsessed with the developer experience and thrive on solving large-scale problems with a track record to prove it. If you care as much about the quality of the users experience as you do about the quality of your code and you want to join a high-impact fast-growing team helping to build a better Internet we want to talk to you.

Role Responsibilities

This role is about solving some of the most challenging problems in large scale distributed systems. Youll be making a massive direct impact on the broader developer community.

Build & Architect for Massive Scale

• Own the core architecture of the Workers control plane the system that deploys and configures millions of applications globally.
• Proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks re-architecting critical services to handle exponential growth.
• Design and implement resilient database schemas and read/write patterns built to support exponential platform growth and long-term usage.
• Evolve our services into a true developer platform building the foundational capabilities that unlock future products.

Drive for Extreme Performance & Reliability

• Obsess over the developer experience with a relentless focus on reducing API latency and increasing API availability.
• Own the reliability of one of Cloudflares most critical customer-facing systems.
• Take pride in production ownership by participating in an on-call rotation to ensure our platform is always on.

Lead Collaborate & Innovate

• Partner directly with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into simple elegant and scalable solutions.
• Lead technical design from the ground up collaborating with a brilliant globally-distributed team of engineers.
• Act as a mentor and knowledge-sharer leveling up the entire team.
• Constantly research prototype and introduce cutting-edge technologies to solve new classes of problems.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Must-Have Skills

• Strong experience using Go
• Experience with Javascript and Typescript
• Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience with SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools
• Experience with distributed systems
• Proven ability to drive projects independently from concept to implementation gathering requirements writing technical specifications implementing testing and releasing
• Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with C or Rust
• Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands
• Experience working on a control and/or data plane
• Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages
• Experience working in frontend frameworks such as React
• Experience managing interns or mentoring junior engineers
• Product mindset and comfortable talking to customers and partners
• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Familiarity with RPC

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale 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 customers--at 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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!

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