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Senior Software Engineer, R2 Metadata

Cloudflare · Hybrid

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 80 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
high
328 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
2026-10-22

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 Metadata team at Cloudflare, you will design and implement features for a metadata system that supports the R2 object storage platform. Your responsibilities will include building and operating production services, managing schema and data models, and ensuring system reliability and performance. You will also collaborate with various teams and leverage AI tools to enhance development processes.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or similar languages
  • Experience with distributed databases; schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and understanding consistency/performance tradeoffs at scale
  • Experience building or operating large scale distributed systems with strong reliability requirements
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts such as object storage, edge computing, or service oriented architectures
  • Understanding of reliability and observability practices: monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and incident response
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain technical decisions clearly and coordinate across teams

Nice to have

  • Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or edge computing platforms

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Hybrid work location may require in-person interviews
  • Role involves on-call rotations and incident management

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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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