Lead the technical direction and architecture of large-scale infrastructure projects, ensuring reliability and performance for Cloudflare's R2 storage platform.
Locations: Austin, TX | New York, NY | San Francisco, CA | London, UK About the Department
Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
About the Team
R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform, designed to offer developers a durable and reliable storage solution that integrates seamlessly with Cloudflare's Developer Platform, including Workers and other compute products. The R2 team builds foundational infrastructure that operates at massive scale and powers critical workloads across Cloudflare's global network-designing and maintaining distributed systems that handle high throughput, provide strong consistency and durability guarantees, and support a growing number of developer-facing features.
You'll be joining a highly motivated team that owns the full stack of R2: tackling complex problems in distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance at a global scale.
What You'll Do
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.
About the Team
R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform, designed to offer developers a durable and reliable storage solution that integrates seamlessly with Cloudflare's Developer Platform, including Workers and other compute products. The R2 team builds foundational infrastructure that operates at massive scale and powers critical workloads across Cloudflare's global network-designing and maintaining distributed systems that handle high throughput, provide strong consistency and durability guarantees, and support a growing number of developer-facing features.
You'll be joining a highly motivated team that owns the full stack of R2: tackling complex problems in distributed systems with a focus on reliability and performance at a global scale.
What You'll Do
- Set the technical direction for some of our most critical and complex infrastructure projects.
- Drive large-scale architectural decisions that span multiple teams and services.
- Design and implement systems that operate reliably under heavy load and at massive scale.
- Lead technical investigations and break down ambiguous problems into clear plans of action.
- Collaborate closely with engineers across teams, product managers, and infrastructure stakeholders to align goals and deliver on timelines.
- Be a key contributor to our roadmap - helping shape the future of R2's architecture, performance, and reliability.
- Experience setting the architecture and technical direction for large, cross-team, and cross-functional engineering efforts.
- Strong systems-level programming skills.
- A deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, and partition tolerance.
- Proven experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain technical decisions clearly and drive alignment.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and evolving priorities.
- Experience with storage systems, networking, or large-scale cloud infrastructure is a strong plus.
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $281,000
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $234,000 - $286,000
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Top Skills
Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Networking
Programming
Storage Systems
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