Cloudflare · 23 hours ago
Senior Systems Engineer, Durable Objects DevEx
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expCloudflare is a technology company on a mission to build a better Internet. They are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to focus on the Developer Experience for their Durable Objects platform, responsible for enhancing the entire developer journey from coding to deployment.
AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareSecurityWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain the primary developer-facing surfaces for Durable Objects, including our command-line tooling (wrangler), APIs, SDKs, and dashboard
Own the end-to-end developer workflow, from creating intuitive local testing and simulation environments to building powerful debugging and observability tools for a globally distributed system
Act as a technical leader and mentor on the team, driving engineering quality through rigorous code and design reviews
Innovate on solutions to the unique challenges of managing and migrating state at the edge, ensuring developers can deploy with confidence
Collaborate closely with product managers, developer advocates, and support engineers to translate developer feedback into a concrete product roadmap
Author high-quality technical documentation, tutorials, and example applications that inspire developers and accelerate their time-to-production
Triage, investigate, and resolve complex bugs and performance issues reported by the large and growing community of developers building on Durable Objects
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to building developer-facing tools, APIs, or cloud infrastructure
Deep, hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating applications on at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, or Cloudflare Workers)
Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and an interest in C++/Rust
A 'product-first' mindset and a strong sense of empathy for developers; you get annoyed when tools are hard to use, and you're driven to fix them
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex distributed systems concepts to a wide range of audiences
A proven track record of taking ownership of complex projects and delivering them from inception to production in a distributed, asynchronous team environment
Preferred
Direct experience building applications with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects (we'd love to see what you've built!)
Experience with distributed systems concepts, particularly actor-based models (like Erlang/OTP or Akka), consensus algorithms, or distributed databases
Active contributions to open-source developer tools or libraries
Company
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M
Leadership Team
Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
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