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About the role
Responsibilities
Build and improve the Durable Objects runtime.
Design and develop the low-level routing and storage systems that power customer applications.
Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and feature depth.
Own code end-to-end from design through production.
Solve complex problems in production distributed systems.
Work across JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++.
Help drive the continued evolution of the system.
Requirements
5+ years of experience writing systems software.
Operational mindset with experience owning code in production.
Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
Deep expertise in at least one systems programming language such as C/C++ or Rust.
Experience designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially serverless architectures.
Experience as a technical leader or team lead, driving engineering decisions.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience working on database internals, especially SQLite.
Deep understanding of web technologies such as browsers, HTTP, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
Background in low-latency, real-time environments such as game streaming, high-frequency trading, or payment systems.
Experience debugging, optimizing, and identifying failure modes in large-scale Linux-based distributed systems.
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