R2 is Cloudflare's object storage platform and one of the fastest-growing products in the company's history. The Gateway team owns the surface area that developers interact with: the S3-compatible API, Workers bindings, data migration tools, public buckets, custom domains, event notifications, and the tooling that ties it all together. R2 is experiencing explosive growth with some of the most demanding workloads on the internet, and there is still a lot to build. If a developer touches R2, they're touching code the Gateway team wrote.
What You'll Do
As the Engineering Manager for the R2 Gateway team, you will own the developer experience of R2. You will lead and grow the team, setting technical direction and hiring to expand. Your team is responsible for a wide surface area, from API compatibility and Workers integration to data migration and custom domains, and you'll thrive on navigating across these domains. You will be the face of R2 for developers: engaging with customers on Discord, joining calls with R2's largest accounts, writing blog posts, and often being the go-to person for internal teams building on R2. You will drive a roadmap that balances feature delivery with the reliability and performance work that keeps R2 trustworthy, shipping features that leverage Cloudflare's global network in ways other object stores cannot.
Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, with experience building or operating developer-facing data systems (object stores, databases, message queues, or similar).
- Experience leading engineering teams, either as a manager or as a senior technical lead. We are open to both experienced managers and strong engineers stepping into management.
- A track record of shipping developer-facing features where API design, ergonomics, and migration experience meaningfully impacted adoption.
- Comfort engaging directly with developers through customer calls, community forums, blog posts, or open-source. You're energized by understanding how developers actually use your product.
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts. The Gateway codebase is primarily TypeScript on Cloudflare Workers, with Rust in adjacent services.
- Experience with S3-compatible APIs, object storage systems, or cloud storage platforms.
- Experience building or improving data migration tools where the goal was making a complex process feel simple.
- Experience working with edge networks or CDN architecture.
- Experience growing a team through hiring while delivering on an ambitious roadmap.
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000
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
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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.
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