Available Locations: Austin, Texas | Lisbon, Portugal | 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.
What you'll do
We announced Cloudflare Workers in 2017 - since then it's played a key role in Cloudflare's strategy for entering the developer platform market. Until the launch of Workers, as Cloudflare was ramping up its capabilities in the performance and security spaces, it became clear that developers needed more ways to control the edge than rules engines could support. Workers has allowed Cloudflare to add programmability to the edge such that developers could have access to writing logic on the edge in their preferred way - through code. Over the past few years, Workers has grown from a simple functions-as-a-service option into a fully blown full-stack platform. With any application, however, in addition to serverless compute, you need to be able to manage state. In 2022, Cloudflare released D1 - built on Durable Objects, D1 is Cloudflare's first serverless database. In this role, you'll be helping define and building the future of D1 to enable developers to build full stack applications.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 5+ years experience building full-stack web applications.
- Knowledge of Javascript, preferably Typescript, for both frontend and backend application development.
- Knowledge of at least one modern strongly-typed programming language such as Go, Java, C#, Rust, or C++.
- Experience operating high volume Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.
- Experience designing and building library and REST APIs
- A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
Bonus Points
- A thorough understanding of database internals such as SQLite and Postgres.
- A thorough understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly.
- Experience building developer platforms and/or tooling.
- Experience developing on open source software projects.
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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