Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues
Cloudflare · In-Office
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues** **About Cloudflare** Cloudflare helps build a better Internet by protecting and accelerating applications online—without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Cloudflare’s global network routes traffic through intelligent edge infrastructure that improves performance and reduces spam and attacks. **Available Location** - Austin, TX --- ## About the role Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. The **Cloudflare Queues** team builds a managed, global message queuing service for developers. Queues lets customers 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. Queues is deeply integrated with **Cloudflare Workers** and supports event-driven and asynchronous applications across the Developer Platform. In this role, you’ll design and build Cloudflare Queues—improving reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees while shipping new features at global scale. This role is **AI-first**, and you’ll be expected to use AI tools thoughtfully throughout development without compromising security, reliability, or quality. --- ## Responsibilities - 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 --- ## Desirable skills, knowledge & experience - 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 makes Cloudflare special? Cloudflare is committed to protecting the free and open Internet, including initiatives like **Project Galileo**, the **Athenian Project**, and **1.1.1.1** (with a strong privacy commitment). *Note:* Applicants progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview. This role may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws. Cloudflare is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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