Systems Engineer, R2 Gateway
Core
Design, implement, and operate the S3-compatible API gateway for Cloudflare's R2 object storage platform, handling authentication, routing, rate limiting, and request coordination at global scale.
Role type
Senior IC Systems Engineer (Distributed Systems & Storage Gateway)
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency request-path services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes for the R2 object storage platform.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, object storage, edge computing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Rust, TypeScript, Go, large-scale distributed systems, HTTP/API gateways, high-throughput API design, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, AI coding tools
Preferred skills
S3 API surface, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, edge computing platforms
Technologies
Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Rust, TypeScript, Go
Responsibilities
Design and operate the S3-compatible API gateway ensuring correctness and low latency; Build and operate production services handling high-throughput traffic; Own the request path end-to-end including auth, routing, and rate limiting; Drive incident resolution and write postmortems; Continuously improve reliability and performance; Use AI tools extensively for development and operations.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC