Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Cloudflare Queues
$185-254k
+ Equity Plan + ESPP
More information about location
Web performance and security platform
Posted today
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$185-254k
+ Equity Plan + ESPP
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- The Cloudflare Queues team builds a managed, global message queuing service for developers
- Queues allows 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 and is a foundational building block for event-driven and asynchronous applications
- 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
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with over 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
And impressive third-quarter 2025 results show strong momentum, with revenue rising to $562 million from $430 million a year earlier. The company also raised its full-year guidance, underscoring confidence in continued growth. As demand for secure, cloud-based infrastructure keeps growing, Cloudflare's expanding platform and improving efficiency leave it well positioned to capture further gains in a rapidly growing market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
- Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
- Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
- Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
- Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members' commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
- Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Co-Founder & Lead Engineer)Lee began their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(Co-Founder, President & Co-Chair)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(Co-Founder & CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare in 2009, where he has served as CEO ever since.
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