Senior Software Engineer

Cloudflare's Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) group builds new and bold products. The Cloudflare Queues team builds a managed, global message queuing service for developers, allowing customers to send, buffer, and reliably deliver messages between Workers with at-least-once delivery, batching, and configurable delivery guarantees, without managing infrastructure or paying bandwidth egress fees. Deeply integrated with Cloudflare Workers, Queues supports event-driven and asynchronous applications across the Developer Platform. Generally available since September 2024, Queues runs at global scale on Cloudflare's edge network.

In this role, you will help design and build Cloudflare Queues, improving reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees while shipping new features at global scale. You will own your work from design through release and contribute across the software stack. This role is AI-first, and you will be expected to use AI tools thoughtfully throughout the development lifecycle without compromising security, reliability, or quality.

• Design and build Cloudflare Queues as part of Cloudflare's developer platform.
• Maintain and improve a global-scale message queuing service.
• Ship new features and product improvements.
• Improve reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees.
• Own code from inception through release.
• Work across all layers of the software stack.
• Write design documents to propose and communicate solutions.
• Improve message buffering and delivery behavior.
• Improve producer and consumer scalability under load.
• Debug and fix user-facing bugs.
• Use AI tools responsibly throughout development.

• 4+ years of experience with distributed systems and data.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle.
• Strong judgment for when to rely on AI tools and when to validate independently.
• Strong ownership of correctness, security, and quality.
• Willingness to share knowledge and mentor others.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to document complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Solid understanding of TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Strong systems-level programming skills.
• Understanding of security issues and responsibilities.
• Experience monitoring, alerting, and debugging high-volume production systems.
• Experience with continuous integration workflows and git.
• Ability to analyze data sets such as logs.
• Experience designing and building APIs.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $194,000 - $266,000. For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 - $254,000.

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Benefits include health care, caregiving support, and financial benefits. Specific benefits include Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan, Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, and leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.

Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, and any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these laws without sponsorship for an export license.