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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 14 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- low 0 stale, 12 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 494 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Cloudflare's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Cloudflare.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the R2 Gateway team at Cloudflare, you will design, implement, and operate the S3-compatible API gateway for the R2 object storage platform. Your role involves ensuring the gateway's performance and reliability while managing authentication, request routing, and rate limiting. You will also collaborate across teams, utilize AI tools in your workflow, and participate in incident resolution and postmortem analysis.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Cloudflare as an employer.
What you need
- Strong programming skills in Rust, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems on the request path
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as object storage and HTTP/API gateways
- Experience designing and operating high-throughput APIs
- Understanding of reliability and observability practices
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with the S3 API surface
- Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- In-office work required
- On-call rotation and incident resolution responsibilities
- Expectations to leverage AI tools extensively in development
Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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