Senior Software Engineer, R2 Gateway
Core
Design, implement, and operate the S3-compatible API gateway for Cloudflare's R2 object storage platform, handling authentication, routing, and rate limiting at global scale.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems / API Gateway)
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency request-path services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, object storage, edge computing, distributed systems
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; build production services handling high-throughput traffic; own the request path end-to-end; drive incident resolution and postmortems; continuously improve reliability and performance; collaborate across platform teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC