Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
About the role
Join the Workers Deploy & Config team, the engine behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally, from simple static sites to full-stack applications serving millions of users. This team powers the foundation behind much of Cloudflare’s developer platform, including services like Pages and R2. The work combines distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship features and services within the Workers control plane.
- Improve the platform’s performance, availability, and scalability.
- Design resilient storage schemas and I/O patterns for long-term platform growth.
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions for foundational capabilities.
- Own production reliability, including participation in on-call rotation.
- Partner with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into scalable solutions.
- Drive projects independently from requirements and specs through implementation, testing, and release.
- Share knowledge and mentor interns and junior engineers.
- Research, prototype, and introduce new technologies when they solve meaningful problems.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Strong experience using Go in production environments.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools.
- Knowledge of or experience with distributed systems.
- Proven ability to drive scoped projects from concept to release.
- Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency using AI coding assistants and agents with good judgment to review and verify generated code before shipping.
Bonus Points
- Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands.
- Experience working on a control plane or data plane.
- Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages.
- Product mindset and comfort talking to customers and partners.
- Familiarity with GraphQL.
- Familiarity with RPC.
Benefits
- Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance.
- Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan.
- Time Off: Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
Pay
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $206,000.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
- We are on a mission to help build a better Internet.
- We are a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul.
- We are committed to protecting the free and open Internet.
- We have 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.