Locations: Austin, TX | San Francisco, CA | Washington DC About Queues
Cloudflare's Queues is a global message queuing service that allows applications to reliably send and receive messages. In this role, you'll work with a top-notch engineering team to drive these products forward by ensuring continual reliability, maintaining best-in-class performance, and implementing new features and functionality.
About the Department
Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
What you'll do
In this role, you will collaborate with Customers, Designers, and Product Managers to design and build systems that push the boundaries of what is possible at the Cloudflare edge. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack to empower Cloudflare customers. On any given day, you might write a design document that outlines how you plan to solve a specific problem or implement a new feature, modify how Queues processes requests, or fix a bug that's impacting our users. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including. We primarily use Typescript and Go.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 5+ years of experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience building and managing high volume software applications.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language: we primarily use Go, TypeScript, and Rust.
- Experience debugging, optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system.
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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What We Do
Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.
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