R2 Metadata Engineer — Scalable Edge Storage

Cloudflare; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an Engineer to design and implement features in the R2 metadata layer, backed by a distributed SQL DB, ensuring correctness and high performance for billions of objects. You will build and operate services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes with strong consistency and durability guarantees, owning schemas and data models end-to-end.

You will join a team at the intersection of distributed databases, large-scale storage, and edge computing, shaping the metadata systems that

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with distributed databases; schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and understanding consistency/performance tradeoffs at scale.
• Experience building or operating large scale distributed systems with strong reliability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features in a metadata system, backed by a distributed SQL DB, that serves every R2 API operation, ensuring correctness, performance, and compatibility with the S3 API surface.
• Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes that handle high throughput metadata operations with strong consistency and durability guarantees.
• Own the schema, data model, and query patterns for a metadata layer managing billions of objects across multiple distributed database clusters.
• Own projects end to end; from design docs and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Participate in oncall rotations, drive incident resolution, and write postmortems that improve reliability.
• Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks. We expect engineers to leverage AI as a core part of their workflow.
• Collaborate across teams to coordinate capacity planning, API contracts, and cross cutting initiatives.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Distributed systems

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

Kubernetes

SQL

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking an Engineer to design and implement features in the R2 metadata layer, backed by a distributed SQL DB, ensuring correctness and high performance for billions of objects. You will build and operate services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes with strong consistency and durability guarantees, owning schemas and data models end-to-end.

You will join a team at the intersection of distributed databases, large-scale storage, and edge computing, shaping the metadata systems that