Senior Software Engineer, R2 Metadata
Core
Designing and operating the metadata layer for Cloudflare's R2 object storage platform, ensuring correctness, performance, and durability for billions of objects.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Storage Infrastructure)
Builds
Production metadata services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes, backed by distributed SQL databases.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed databases, object storage, edge computing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
TypeScript, Go, distributed database design, query optimization, schema design, high-throughput system operations, observability, incident response, AI tooling
Preferred skills
Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, edge computing platforms
Technologies
Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, distributed SQL DBs, TypeScript, Go
Responsibilities
Design and implement features in a metadata system backed by a distributed SQL DB; Build and operate production services handling high throughput metadata operations; Own the schema, data model, and query patterns for a metadata layer managing billions of objects; Own projects end to end from design to production monitoring; Participate in oncall rotations and drive incident resolution; Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development and operational tasks.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
