# Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** New York, NY, New Jersey, Washington, Washington, DC, California
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $206k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, GraphQL, Rpc
**Posted:** 2026-07-13

> Build and scale the control plane for Cloudflare Workers, the serverless edge platform. Design distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, storage schemas, and own production reliability for services powering Pages and R2. Requires strong Go experience plus knowledge of observability, databases, and Kubernetes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship features and services within the Workers control plane.
- Improve the platform’s performance, availability, and scalability.
- Design resilient storage schemas and I/O patterns for long-term platform growth.
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions for foundational capabilities.
- Own production reliability, including participation in on-call rotation.
- Partner with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into scalable solutions.
- Drive projects independently from requirements and specs through implementation, testing, and release.
- Share knowledge and mentor interns and junior engineers.
- Research, prototype, and introduce new technologies when they solve meaningful problems.

## Requirements
- Strong experience using Go in production environments.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools.
- Knowledge of or experience with distributed systems.
- Proven ability to drive scoped projects from concept to release.
- Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency using AI coding assistants and agents with good judgment to review and verify generated code before shipping.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands.
- Experience working on a control plane or data plane.
- Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages.
- Product mindset and comfort talking to customers and partners.
- Familiarity with GraphQL.
- Familiarity with RPC.

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