Software Engineer - Queues

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

About the Team

The Workers team makes it possible for Cloudflare customers to run JavaScript and WebAssembly on Cloudflare's edge network. We build and maintain the developer platform that executes trillions of requests per month on behalf of developers and grants them nearly limitless control over how their requests are handled and responded to. The Workers team is split into several groups, this group is focused on application integration and how we bring state to the edge.

What you'll do

In this role, you'll help design and build Cloudflare Queues, a new approach to application integration for the Supercloud. You'll be part of a top-notch engineering team driving Queues toward general availability and beyond by implementing new features, ensuring reliability, improving performance, and implementing unlimited scale.

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, modify how Queues processes and stores messages, or fix a bug in how our user experience renders. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including, but not limited to Typescript, Go, Rust, and C++.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 4+ years of experience with (and love for) distributed systems and application integration
• Willing and eager to share knowledge, and mentorGreat oral and written communications skills, especially concisely documenting complex concepts
• Solid understanding of Go and JavaScript, including asynchronous programming in both
• Strong systems level programming skillsUnderstanding of security issues and responsibilities
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems
• Experience with a continuous integration workflow and using source control (we use git)Solid Linux experience
• Fluent in analyses of data sets such as logs
• Designing and building APIs
• A desire for continuous learning and improvement

Available Location: Austin, TX 

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week