Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

About the position

Join the Workers Deploy & Config team, the engine behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally, from simple static sites to full-stack applications serving millions of users. This team powers the foundation behind much of Cloudflare’s developer platform, including services like Pages and R2. The work combines distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship features and services within the Workers control plane.
  • Improve the platform’s performance, availability, and scalability.
  • Design resilient storage schemas and I/O patterns for long-term platform growth.
  • Contribute to architecture and design discussions for foundational capabilities.
  • Own production reliability, including participation in on-call rotation.
  • Partner with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into scalable solutions.
  • Drive projects independently from requirements and specs through implementation, testing, and release.
  • Share knowledge and mentor interns and junior engineers.
  • Research, prototype, and introduce new technologies when they solve meaningful problems.

Requirements

  • Strong experience using Go in production environments.
  • Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools.
  • Knowledge of or experience with distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to drive scoped projects from concept to release.
  • Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
  • Proficiency using AI coding assistants and agents with good judgment to review and verify generated code before shipping.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands.
  • Experience working on a control plane or data plane.
  • Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages.
  • Product mindset and comfort talking to customers and partners.
  • Familiarity with GraphQL.
  • Familiarity with RPC.

Benefits

  • 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
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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