Engineering Manager, 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>Available Locations: Austin, TX | Seattle, WA | London, UK</strong></h3> <h3><strong>About the Team: R2</strong></h3> <p>R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform and one of the fastest-growing products in the company's history. The Gateway team owns the surface area that developers interact with: the S3-compatible API, Workers bindings, data migration tools, public buckets, custom domains, event notifications, and the tooling that ties it all together. R2 is experiencing explosive growth with some of the most demanding workloads on the internet, and there is still a lot to build. If a developer touches R2, they're touching code the Gateway team wrote.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>As the Engineering Manager for the R2 Gateway team, you will own the developer experience of R2. You will lead and grow the team, setting technical direction and hiring to expand. Your team is responsible for a wide surface area, from API compatibility and Workers integration to data migration and custom domains, and you'll thrive on navigating across these domains. You will be the face of R2 for developers: engaging with customers on Discord, joining calls with R2's largest accounts, writing blog posts, and often being the go-to person for internal teams building on R2. You will drive a roadmap that balances feature delivery with the reliability and performance work that keeps R2 trustworthy, shipping features that leverage Cloudflare's global network in ways other object stores cannot.</p> <h3><strong>Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, with experience building or operating developer-facing data systems (object stores, databases, message queues, or similar).</li> <li>Experience leading engineering teams, either as a manager or as a senior technical lead. We are open to both experienced managers and strong engineers stepping into management.</li> <li>A track record of shipping developer-facing features where API design, ergonomics, and migration experience meaningfully impacted adoption.</li> <li>Comfort engaging directly with developers through customer calls, community forums, blog posts, or open-source. You're energized by understanding how developers actually use your product.</li> <li>Familiarity with distributed systems concepts. The Gateway codebase is primarily TypeScript on Cloudflare Workers, with Rust in adjacent services.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Bonus Points</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience with S3-compatible APIs, object storage systems, or cloud storage platforms.</li> <li ... (truncated, view full listing at source)