Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues
$185K–$266K
In-Office +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 4+ years of experience with distributed systems and data.
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs, builds, and maintains Cloudflare Queues, a global message queuing service, improving its features, reliability, performance, and delivery behavior.
What you'll do
- Design and build Queues, shipping product features and improvements at global scale.
- Improve reliability, performance, message buffering, delivery guarantees, and producer and consumer scalability.
- Own work from design through release, including writing design documents, debugging user-facing issues, and using AI tools responsibly.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience with distributed systems and data.
- Solid understanding of TypeScript/JavaScript and strong systems-level programming skills.
- Experience monitoring, alerting, and debugging high-volume production systems.
- Experience designing and building APIs.
Nice to have
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with continuous integration workflows and git.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript/JavaScript, git
AI focus
AI-first role; expected to use AI tools thoughtfully throughout development, with judgment and independent validation while maintaining security, reliability, and quality.
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