Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build Cloudflare Queues as part of Cloudflare's developer platform
• ▹Maintain and improve a global-scale message queuing service
• ▹Ship new features and product improvements
• ▹Improve reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees
• ▹Own code from inception through release
• ▹Work across all layers of the software stack
• ▹Write design documents to propose and communicate solutions
• ▹Improve message buffering and delivery behavior
• ▹Improve producer and consumer scalability under load
• ▹Debug and fix user-facing bugs
• ▹Use AI tools responsibly throughout development

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of experience with distributed systems and data
• ▹Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle
• ▹Strong judgment for when to rely on AI tools and when to validate independently
• ▹Strong ownership of correctness, security, and quality
• ▹Willingness to share knowledge and mentor others
• ▹Excellent oral and written communication skills
• ▹Ability to document complex ideas clearly and concisely
• ▹Solid understanding of TypeScript/JavaScript
• ▹Strong systems-level programming skills
• ▹Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
• ▹Experience monitoring, alerting, and debugging high-volume production systems
• ▹Experience with continuous integration workflows and git
• ▹Ability to analyze data sets such as logs
• ▹Experience designing and building APIs
• ▹Commitment to continuous learning and improvement

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Medical/Rx insurance
• ▹Dental insurance
• ▹Vision insurance
• ▹Flexible spending accounts and commuter spending accounts
• ▹Fertility and family forming benefits
• ▹On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• ▹Global travel medical insurance
• ▹Short and long term disability insurance
• ▹Life and accident insurance
• ▹401(k) retirement savings plan
• ▹Employee Stock Participation Plan
• ▹Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• ▹Parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs
• ▹Equity

About the company

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. It runs one of the world's largest networks, powering millions of websites and Internet properties, protecting and accelerating them without adding hardware or changing code. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies.