Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

<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>Position Location: Austin, TX | Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK</strong></h3> <h3><strong>Role Summary</strong></h3> <p>Join the Workers Deploy Config team, the engine behind Cloudflare's unique serverless, edge-computing developer platform. This isn't just another backend role; you'll be building the critical, large-scale systems that empower developers worldwide to deploy everything - from a personal static site to full-stack applications serving millions of users. In fact, you'll be building the very foundation that the rest of our developer platform—from Pages to R2—is built upon.</p> <p>You will tackle the complex challenges of distributed systems and high-traffic APIs every single day. Your mission? To build and scale the platform that lets customers upload, configure, and manage their Workers, ensuring it's incredibly fast, extremely resilient, and scales effortlessly. You’ll drive projects from the initial idea to global release, delivering solutions at every layer of the stack. You’ll get to master a diverse and modern tech stack, writing high-performance Go, architecting APIs, optimizing storage interactions, building Workers with JavaScript/TypeScript, and managing it all on Kubernetes.</p> <p>We're looking for engineers who are obsessed with the developer experience and thrive on solving large-scale problems with a track record to prove it. If you care as much about the quality of the user's experience as you do about the quality of your code, and you want to join a high-impact, fast-growing team helping to build a better Internet, we want to talk to you.</p> <h3><strong>Role Responsibilities</strong></h3> <p>This role is about solving some of the most challenging problems in large scale, distributed systems. You'll be making a massive, direct impact on the broader developer community.</p> <p><strong>Build Architect for Massive Scale</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the core architecture of the Workers control plane, the system that deploys and configures millions of applications globally.</li> <li>Proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, re-architecting critical services to handle exponential growth.</li> <li>Design and implement resilient database schemas and read/write patterns built to support exponential platform growth and long-term usage.</li> <li>Evolve our services into a true developer platform, building the foundational capabilities that unlock future products.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Drive for Extreme Performance Reliability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Obsess over the developer experience, with a relentless focus on reducing API latency and increasin ... (truncated, view full listing at source)