Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

At Cloudflare, we're not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we're looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you're the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you'll fit right in., 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., * 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.

• 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., * 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.

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Bereavement leave, 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, Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

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

Cloudflare, Inc. is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to create an application modernization and AI strategy to consume, build, protect, and defend at scale. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can power and protect their applications.

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