Systems Engineer, Workers Authoring and Testing

<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>Available Locations: Austin, TX | London, UK</strong></h3> <h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>Our team’s core mission is to enable developers to do what they do best — build powerful applications. We believe they should be able to do this without having to think or worry about infrastructure, scaling, or performance. While Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare’s solution to serverless computing, handles the infrastructure part, there’s so much more that goes into enabling developers to do their jobs. Developer experience plays a critical role in the success of developers using our platform, so it is our team’s goal to make authoring and testing on our platform easy to understand, accessible, and fun! If this excites you, come join our team of talented engineers that enables developers all around the world to build low-latency planet-scale applications for the Internet and the Web!</p> <h3><strong>About the Department</strong></h3> <p>Our team is part of Cloudflare's Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) group, where new, bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. As the Workers Authoring and Testing team, we develop and maintain tools and packages within a larger collection of developer resources for one of ETIs most successful endeavors so far, Cloudflare Workers. </p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <p>As a member of the Workers Authoring and Testing team, you will put yourself in the shoes of a developer, and use your understanding of software engineering, Web and Internet technologies, and modern JS frameworks to propose, evaluate, and implement innovative technical solutions that create and improve the development experience on the Cloudflare Workers development platform. To this end, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Create and improve development tools to support authoring and testing with Cloudflare Workers</li> <li>Work on projects that span multiple development surfaces, including CLIs, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and web framework integrations</li> <li>Converge existing tools and systems to simplify our product portfolio and increase quality and cohesion of the development experience</li> <li>Help feature teams craft their public JavaScript/TypeScript APIs</li> <li>Contribute to internal and public-facing technical documentation</li> <li>Support the health and availability of services by being part of an on-call rotation</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Collaborate with engineers across Cloudflare, and contribute at many layers of the stack </li> <li>Help implement metrics and dashboards to monitor operational health after projects ship</li> <li>Leverage you ... (truncated, view full listing at source)