Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer, R2 Metadata
$185K–$266K
Hybrid +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2025
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - Visa sponsorship
- An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates the distributed metadata systems behind Cloudflare R2 object storage, supporting its API operations at global scale.
What you'll do
- Develop metadata features and operate high-throughput services with correctness, performance, consistency, and durability guarantees.
- Own metadata schemas, data models, and queries, and deliver projects from design through deployment and monitoring.
- Participate in on-call and incident response; collaborate across teams and use AI tools in development and operations.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with distributed databases, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and consistency/performance tradeoffs.
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems with strong reliability requirements.
- Comfort using AI coding tools in daily development.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with object storage, edge computing, or service-oriented architectures; reliability and observability practices.
- Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual salary (base salary); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Go, distributed SQL DB, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Durable Objects, S3 API
AI focus
Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks; AI is expected to be a core part of the workflow.
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