Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer, Durable Objects (DO)
$185K–$266K
In-Office +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2023
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of experience writing systems software.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers 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
Build and evolve the Durable Objects runtime and the routing and storage systems that support stateful applications on Cloudflare’s edge network.
What you'll do
- Develop and improve the runtime and low-level routing and storage systems.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and features; own code from design through production.
- Solve production distributed-systems problems and help evolve the system.
What they ask for
- Operational mindset and experience owning code in production.
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Deep expertise in at least one systems programming language, such as C/C++ or Rust.
- Experience designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with database internals, especially SQLite; web technologies such as browsers, HTTP, JavaScript, and WebAssembly; or low-latency real-time environments.
- Experience debugging, optimizing, and identifying failure modes in large-scale Linux-based distributed systems; technical leadership experience.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C/C++, SQLite, WebAssembly, Linux
AI focus
The role supports stateful workloads including AI agents. The posting also describes an AI-native culture that uses AI as a partner and to ship faster.
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