Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues

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.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• 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.

Compensation

For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 - 254,000

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