Software Engineer, R2 Storage

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! </span></p> </div></div><h3><strong>Locations: Austin, TX | Seattle, WA | Lisbon, PT | London, UK</strong></h3> <h3><strong>About the Department</strong></h3> <p>Emerging Technologies Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.</p> <h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3> <p>R2 is Cloudflare’s object storage platform, designed to offer developers a durable and reliable storage solution that integrates seamlessly with Cloudflare’s Developer Platform, including Workers and other compute products. The R2 team builds foundational infrastructure that operates at massive scale and powers critical workloads across Cloudflare’s global network–designing and maintaining distributed systems that handle high throughput, provide strong consistency and durability guarantees, and support a growing number of developer-facing features.</p> <p>You’ll be joining a highly motivated team that is building the next generation of object storage.</p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h3> <p>In this role, you will help us build out the next generation of our globally distributed object storage system. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem, implement a new feature, or fix a bug that's impacting our users. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including Rust, Go, and TypeScript.</p> <h3><strong>Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Strong programming skills with languages like Typescript, Rust, or Go</li> <li>A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, and partition tolerance</li> <li>Experience with distributed storage systems</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions clearly</li> <li>Experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems</li> <li>Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and evolving priorities</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>What Makes Cloudflare Special?</strong></p> ... (truncated, view full listing at source)