Software Engineer, R2 Storage

Join to apply for the Systems Engineer, R2 Storage role at Cloudflare
.

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.

• Austin, TX
• Lisbon, PT
• London, UK

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.

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.

You’ll be joining a highly motivated team that is building the next generation of object storage.

In this role, you will help us build out the next generation of Object Storage in a globally distributed system written in Rust. 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 Type Script.

• Systems-level programming skills with languages like Rust, Go, or C is strongly preferred.
• A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, and partition tolerance.
• Experience with distributed storage systems like CEPH is a strong plus.
• Solid experience with Observability using tools like Grafana or Datadog.
• Written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain technical decisions clearly.
• Some experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and evolving priorities.
• Experience with storage systems, networking, or large-scale cloud infrastructure is a strong plus.
• Some Dev Ops/SRE experience operating distributed backend systems at scale using Salt is a plus.

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo:
Since 2014, we ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project:
In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest…