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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, R2 Metadata - **Company:** CloudFlare - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Metadata, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Database Optimization, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Api Management - **Published:** June 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=168e41c41c4d41e7 ## About the Role Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or similar languages. * Experience with distributed databases; schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and understanding consistency/performance tradeoffs at scale. * Experience building or operating large scale distributed systems with strong reliability requirements. * Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as object storage, edge computing, or service oriented architectures. * Understanding of reliability and observability practices: monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response. * Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain technical decisions clearly and coordinate across teams. * Comfortable working with AI coding tools as part of a daily development workflow. * Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms is a strong plus. ## Description 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., R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform, offering developers durable, reliable storage that integrates seamlessly with Cloudflare's global network and Developer Platform. The R2 Metadata team owns the metadata layer that underpins every R2 operation, every object put, get, list, and delete flows through the systems we build and operate. R2 is growing rapidly, and the metadata layer must evolve to keep pace. The team is responsible for designing and operating the metadata systems that track every object in R2, building and shipping developer-facing features, and ensuring the reliability and performance of these systems at global scale. You'll be joining a team that operates at the intersection of distributed databases, large scale storage infrastructure, and edge computing; building systems that need to be correct, fast, and reliable., * Design and implement features in a metadata system, backed by a distributed SQL DB, that serves every R2 API operation, ensuring correctness, performance, and compatibility with the S3 API surface. * Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes that handle high throughput metadata operations with strong consistency and durability guarantees. * Own the schema, data model, and query patterns for a metadata layer managing billions of objects across multiple distributed database clusters. * Own projects end to end; from design docs and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring. * Participate in oncall rotations, drive incident resolution, and write postmortems that improve reliability. * Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks. 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