Senior Systems Engineer, Durable Objects (Edge)

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare’s Emerging Technologies & Incubation team is hiring for the Durable Objects role. You will work on stateful serverless workloads at the edge, tackling low-level routing and storage systems critical to real-time applications.

The role requires hands-on ownership from design to production, including multi-language collaboration across JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++. This Austin-based position offers equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience writing systems software.
• Operational mindset with experience owning code in production.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Deep expertise in at least one systems programming language such as C/C++ or Rust.
• Experience designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially serverless architectures.
• Experience as a technical leader or team lead.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the Durable Objects runtime.
• Design and develop the low-level routing and storage systems that power customer applications.
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and feature depth.
• Own code end-to-end from design through production.
• Solve complex problems in production distributed systems.
• Work across JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++.
• Help drive the continued evolution of the system.

Skills

Systems programming

Distributed systems

C/C++

Rust

Leadership

Tools

SQLite

Job description

Cloudflare’s Emerging Technologies & Incubation team is hiring for the Durable Objects role. You will work on stateful serverless workloads at the edge, tackling low-level routing and storage systems critical to real-time applications.

The role requires hands-on ownership from design to production, including multi-language collaboration across JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, and C++. This Austin-based position offers equity and a comprehensive benefits package.