Our team's core mission is to enable developers to do what they do best - build powerful applications. We believe they should be able to do this without having to think or worry about infrastructure, scaling, or performance. While Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare's solution to serverless computing, handles the infrastructure part, there's so much more that goes into enabling developers to do their jobs. Developer experience plays a critical role in the success of developers using our platform, so it is our team's goal to make authoring and testing on our platform easy to understand, accessible, and fun! If this excites you, come join our team of talented engineers that enables developers all around the world to build low-latency planet-scale applications for the Internet and the Web!
About the Department
Our team is part of Cloudflare's Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) group, where new, bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. As the Workers Authoring and Testing team, we develop and maintain tools and packages within a larger collection of developer resources for one of ETIs most successful endeavors so far, Cloudflare Workers.
What you'll do
As a member of the Workers Authoring and Testing team, you will put yourself in the shoes of a developer, and use your understanding of software engineering, Web and Internet technologies, and modern JS frameworks to propose, evaluate, and implement innovative technical solutions that create and improve the development experience on the Cloudflare Workers development platform. To this end, you will:
- Create and improve development tools to support authoring and testing with Cloudflare Workers
- Work on projects that span multiple development surfaces, including CLIs, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and web framework integrations
- Converge existing tools and systems to simplify our product portfolio and increase quality and cohesion of the development experience
- Help feature teams craft their public JavaScript/TypeScript APIs
- Contribute to internal and public-facing technical documentation
- Support the health and availability of services by being part of an on-call rotation
- Collaborate with engineers across Cloudflare, and contribute at many layers of the stack
- Help implement metrics and dashboards to monitor operational health after projects ship
- Leverage your creativity and developer prowess to seek out new ways to improve the platform
We want you to love it here! This role is a good fit for you if you are:
- Excited by the idea of helping application developers be successful
- Experienced with JavaScript and TypeScript
- Passionate about development tools, libraries, frameworks, and workflows
- Enthusiastic about untangling and re-architecting complex distributed systems to improve efficiency and simplify future development
- Able to distill developer pain points into a smaller number of root causes
- Excited to own your work from early discussions and onward
- Naturally curious and eager to take steps to learn something new
- Above all, a collaborator and effective communicator. You want to join a team that upholds a culture of support, open and honest communication, and vulnerability, and that values collaboration over heroism. We celebrate our achievements, support each other when we make mistakes, and hold each other and our work to the highest standard
- Experience using the Cloudflare Workers development platform
- Experience contributing to open source projects
- Experience with production system monitoring
- Experience with a variety of modern JS web frameworks
- Public speaking or developer relations skills
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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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We are committed to developing a global team that is distributed with a flexible working approach. Doing this equitably and inclusively is essential to our success. Visit our careers site for more on 'How & Where We Work.'
