**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience, specifically focused on building developer-facing tools, APIs,
Work type: hybrid
Location: Hybrid
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience, specifically focused on building developer-facing tools, APIs, or cloud infrastructure. If you have a deep understanding of cloud platforms and a passion for improving the developer journey for complex, stateful applications, Cloudflare wants to hear from you. **Key highlights** You will lead the developer experience for Cloudflare's Durable Objects, a globally-distributed state primitive. This involves designing, building, and maintaining the tools, APIs, and SDKs that make building stateful applications on the edge intuitive and reliable. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a significant portion in developer-facing tools or cloud infrastructure. - Possess deep, hands-on experience building and operating applications on major cloud platforms. - Are obsessed with developer ergonomics and have experience with the challenges of deploying complex cloud applications. - Can act as a technical leader, mentor, and collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams.
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
### Available Location: Austin, Lisbon, London
### Role Summary
Cloudflare is building the future of the Internet, and the Workers platform is at the forefront of that mission. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team behind [Durable Object](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/), our globally-distributed, strongly-consistent coordination and state primitive, focusing on the Developer Experience. You will be responsible for the entire developer journey, from their first line of code to their production deployment and debugging. You’ll work with the Workers engineering and product teams to build the APIs, Javscript SDKs, and observability features that make building stateful applications on the edge intuitive, reliable, and maybe even a little bit fun. We’re looking for a pragmatic, product-minded engineer who is obsessed with developer ergonomics and has felt the pain of deploying complex applications in the cloud.
### Role Responsibilities
### Must-Have Skills
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
[Project Galileo](https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/): Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
[1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/): We released[ 1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1/) to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our[ privacy commitment](https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver) and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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