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Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues

Cloudflare· Emerging Technology and Incubation
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role building Cloudflare Queues, a global managed message queuing service integrated with Cloudflare Workers. AI-first development mindset, owning work from design through release and contributing across the software stack to improve reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees at global scale.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsAI-assisted development toolsTypeScript/JavaScriptSecurityMonitoring/alerting/debuggingCI/CD and gitAPI design
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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