Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare Queues

Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Cloudflare Queues team. In this role, you will design and build a managed, global message queuing service, improving its reliability and performance while shipping new features at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build Cloudflare Queues as part of Cloudflare’s developer platform
• Maintain and improve a global-scale message queuing service
• Ship new features and product improvements
• Improve reliability, performance, and delivery guarantees
• Own code from inception through release
• Work across all layers of the software stack
• Write design documents to propose and communicate solutions
• Improve message buffering and delivery behavior
• Improve producer and consumer scalability under load
• Debug and fix user-facing bugs
• Use AI tools responsibly throughout development

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience with distributed systems and data
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle
• Strong judgment for when to rely on AI tools and when to validate independently
• Strong ownership of correctness, security, and quality
• Willingness to share knowledge and mentor others
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to document complex ideas clearly and concisely
• Solid understanding of TypeScript/JavaScript
• Strong systems-level programming skills
• Understanding of security issues and responsibilities
• Experience monitoring, alerting, and debugging high-volume production systems
• Experience with continuous integration workflows and git
• Ability to analyze data sets such as logs
• Experience designing and building APIs
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement