Engineering Manager, R2 Storage

About Us

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. 

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX | Seattle, WA | London, UK

About the Team: R2

R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform and one of the fastest-growing products in the company's history. The Gateway team owns the surface area that developers interact with: the S3-compatible API, Workers bindings, data migration tools, public buckets, custom domains, event notifications, and the tooling that ties it all together. R2 is experiencing explosive growth with some of the most demanding workloads on the internet, and there is still a lot to build. If a developer touches R2, they're touching code the Gateway team wrote.

What You'll Do

As the Engineering Manager for the R2 Gateway team, you will own the developer experience of R2. You will lead and grow the team, setting technical direction and hiring to expand. Your team is responsible for a wide surface area, from API compatibility and Workers integration to data migration and custom domains, and you'll thrive on navigating across these domains. You will be the face of R2 for developers: engaging with customers in chat, joining calls with R2's largest accounts, writing blog posts, and often being the go-to person for internal teams building on R2. You will drive a roadmap that balances feature delivery with the reliability and performance work that keeps R2 trustworthy, shipping features that leverage Cloudflare's global network in ways other object stores cannot.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, with experience building or operating developer-facing data systems (object stores, databases, message queues, or similar).
• Experience leading engineering teams, either as a manager or as a senior technical lead. We are open to both experienced managers and strong engineers stepping into management.
• A track record of shipping developer-facing features where API design, ergonomics, and migration experience meaningfully impacted adoption.
• Comfort engaging directly with developers through customer calls, community forums, blog posts, or open-source. You're energized by understanding how developers actually use your product.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts. The Gateway codebase is primarily TypeScript on Cloudflare Workers, with Go in adjacent services.

Bonus Points

• Experience with S3-compatible APIs, object storage systems, or cloud storage platforms.
• Experience building or improving data migration tools where the goal was making a complex process feel simple.
• Experience working with edge networks or CDN architecture.
• Experience growing a team through hiring while delivering on an ambitious roadmap.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $190,000 - $261,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your famil