Senior R2 Metadata Engineer | Edge & AI-Driven

Cloudflare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a metadata-focused engineer for the R2 metadata team within Emerging Technologies & Incubation. You will design and optimize the metadata layer that powers billions of objects across distributed clusters, leveraging Cloudflare's edge and global network.

You will ship features via Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes, and maintain strong consistency and high durability across the system. You will own schema and data models end-to-end, collaborate across storage, networking, and

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript/Go and building scalable metadata systems.
• Experience with distributed databases and large-scale storage.
• Strong understanding of consistency and performance tradeoffs at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features in a metadata system backed by a distributed SQL DB.
• Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes.
• Own the schema, data model, and query patterns for a metadata layer.
• Own projects end to end from design to production monitoring.
• Participate in oncall rotations and postmortems to improve reliability.
• Leverage AI tooling to accelerate development and operations.
• Collaborate across teams to coordinate capacity planning and API contracts.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Distributed databases

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

AI tooling

Edge computing

SQL

Kubernetes

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

Kubernetes

SQL

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a metadata-focused engineer for the R2 metadata team within Emerging Technologies & Incubation. You will design and optimize the metadata layer that powers billions of objects across distributed clusters, leveraging Cloudflare's edge and global network.

You will ship features via Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes, and maintain strong consistency and high durability across the system. You will own schema and data models end-to-end, collaborate across storage, networking, and