Drive the strategy for JavaScript APIs in Cloudflare Workers, lead API development, collaborate with teams and external developers, and prioritize product features.
Available Locations: Austin, Lisbon, and London
About The Role
We announced Cloudflare Workers in 2017 - since then it's played a key role in Cloudflare's strategy for entering the compute 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 grown from a simple functions-as-a-service option into a complete full-stack platform - and with this comes the need to support a broader set of Runtime APIs. This spans a wide range, from TC39 standards, to Node.js APIs, to web standards. We played a key role in forming WinterCG, and there's still much work to do to grow a shared base of APIs across runtimes - to push forward the ecosystem and ease the burden on open-source maintainers of supporting multiple runtimes.
What You'll Do
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial-minded and thrives in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment.
You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and are able to work with a diverse group, get alignment, and drive the product forward. You are execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details.
Equity
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
Financial Benefits
Time Off
About The Role
We announced Cloudflare Workers in 2017 - since then it's played a key role in Cloudflare's strategy for entering the compute 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 grown from a simple functions-as-a-service option into a complete full-stack platform - and with this comes the need to support a broader set of Runtime APIs. This spans a wide range, from TC39 standards, to Node.js APIs, to web standards. We played a key role in forming WinterCG, and there's still much work to do to grow a shared base of APIs across runtimes - to push forward the ecosystem and ease the burden on open-source maintainers of supporting multiple runtimes.
What You'll Do
- Drive the strategy and roadmap for JavaScript APIs in the Cloudflare Workers Runtime
- Lead new APIs from ideation through launch, and continuing through ongoing maintenance and support
- Guide teams both internal and external on developing new JavaScript APIs in Workers, including first-party Cloudflare products and external libraries seeking to increase compatibility
- Develop and nurture key external relationships with open-source maintainers, and ensure their needs are heard and acted on
- Partner with other departments such as Product Marketing, Marketing, Community & developer advocacy, Sales, and Customer Support to drive adoption with and gather feedback from customers and prospects
- Ruthlessly prioritize across a complex environment of diverse customers, stakeholders and objectives
- Represent the company externally as needed, including meetings with customers, speaking at external events, participating in WinterCG and more.
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial-minded and thrives in a fast-paced and goal-driven environment.
You have outstanding communication and collaboration skills and are able to work with a diverse group, get alignment, and drive the product forward. You are execution focused and emphasize getting things done while paying attention to important details.
- Proven track record of shipping developer-facing products from ideation to launch, 3+ years of professional experience working on technology products
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript, the NPM ecosystem, and web standards. You have built things in JavaScript and enjoy immersing yourself in the JavaScript community, engaging with new standards, libraries, and frameworks
- Developer focus - you'll be working directly, and often be a part of the customers team in helping them get their initial implementation off the ground
- Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with modern software development practices used to build and deploy applications. You are capable of wading into the details & understanding engineering decisions' impact on the product, but can also drive 30k foot view
- A desire to sweat the details and ship great developer experiences
- A love for talking to developers at organizations both large and small on a daily basis so that you can build and ship products that solve real problems.
Equity
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
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Top Skills
JavaScript
Npm
Web Standards
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