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Work with customers and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot internet and Cloudflare product issues, track tickets, update documentation and runbooks, test releases, report bugs, and provide product feedback while learning networking, web, and scripting technologies.
Top Skills:
ApacheBashCurlDigDnsGitHTTPIisJavaScriptLinuxNginxOpensslPythonSsl/TlsTraceroute
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Design, build, and operate a scalable logging and audit-log delivery platform. Develop high-performance connectors and integrations, ensure secure, compliant delivery to customer destinations, optimize pipeline throughput and latency, maintain operational health and monitoring, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate on architecture and product requirements across teams.
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Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency distributed data systems across ingestion, storage, and retrieval. Optimize delivery pipelines, scale analytical database clusters (ClickHouse), develop GraphQL and log delivery solutions, monitor performance with observability tooling, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate cross-functionally and with open-source communities to evolve the data platform.
Top Skills:
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Locations: Austin, TX | London, UK About the Department
At Cloudflare, the Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) department is our innovation engine. This is where we conceive, build, and launch groundbreaking new products that leverage Cloudflare's unique global network and edge capabilities. Free from the constraints of established business structures, ETI teams harness Cloudflare's massive scale and efficiency to deliver entirely new tools and solutions to our customers-solving problems that would be impossible for almost any other organization. Join us to work on the bleeding edge of internet technology.
About the Team: R2
The R2 team is at the heart of Cloudflare's developer platform, building and maintaining our robust object storage solution. R2 provides developers with a durable, reliable, and highly integrated storage platform that seamlessly connects with Cloudflare Workers and our broader compute ecosystem. We are responsible for foundational infrastructure that operates at an immense scale, powering critical workloads across Cloudflare's global network. Our work involves designing and maintaining sophisticated distributed systems that ensure high throughput, strong consistency, and unparalleled durability, all while supporting a rapidly expanding suite of developer-facing features.
You'll be joining a highly motivated and collaborative team that owns the full stack of R2. We thrive on tackling the most complex challenges in distributed systems, with an unwavering focus on reliability, performance, and global scale.
What You'll Do
As a key technical leader on the R2 team, you will:
At Cloudflare, the Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) department is our innovation engine. This is where we conceive, build, and launch groundbreaking new products that leverage Cloudflare's unique global network and edge capabilities. Free from the constraints of established business structures, ETI teams harness Cloudflare's massive scale and efficiency to deliver entirely new tools and solutions to our customers-solving problems that would be impossible for almost any other organization. Join us to work on the bleeding edge of internet technology.
About the Team: R2
The R2 team is at the heart of Cloudflare's developer platform, building and maintaining our robust object storage solution. R2 provides developers with a durable, reliable, and highly integrated storage platform that seamlessly connects with Cloudflare Workers and our broader compute ecosystem. We are responsible for foundational infrastructure that operates at an immense scale, powering critical workloads across Cloudflare's global network. Our work involves designing and maintaining sophisticated distributed systems that ensure high throughput, strong consistency, and unparalleled durability, all while supporting a rapidly expanding suite of developer-facing features.
You'll be joining a highly motivated and collaborative team that owns the full stack of R2. We thrive on tackling the most complex challenges in distributed systems, with an unwavering focus on reliability, performance, and global scale.
What You'll Do
As a key technical leader on the R2 team, you will:
- Define Technical Direction: Architect and set the technical strategy for some of Cloudflare's most critical and complex infrastructure projects within R2.
- Drive Architectural Decisions: Lead large-scale architectural discussions and decisions that impact multiple teams and services across Cloudflare.
- Engineer Scalable Systems: Design, implement, and optimize distributed systems that operate reliably under extreme load and at massive, global scale.
- Solve Ambiguous Problems: Lead technical investigations, breaking down complex and ambiguous challenges into clear, actionable plans.
- Foster Collaboration: Work closely with engineers across various teams, product managers, and infrastructure stakeholders to align goals, drive consensus, and ensure timely delivery.
Cloudflare Austin, Texas, USA Office
405 Comal St, Austin, TX, United States, 78702
What you need to know about the Austin Tech Scene
Austin has a diverse and thriving tech ecosystem thanks to home-grown companies like Dell and major campuses for IBM, AMD and Apple. The state’s flagship university, the University of Texas at Austin, is known for its engineering school, and the city is known for its annual South by Southwest tech and media conference. Austin’s tech scene spans many verticals, but it’s particularly known for hardware, including semiconductors, as well as AI, biotechnology and cloud computing. And its food and music scene, low taxes and favorable climate has made the city a destination for tech workers from across the country.
Key Facts About Austin Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 180,500; 13.7% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Dell, IBM, AMD, Apple, Alphabet
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, hardware, cloud computing, software, healthtech
- Funding Landscape: $4.5 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Live Oak Ventures, Austin Ventures, Hinge Capital, Gigafund, KdT Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Silverton Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Texas, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center
