About Careertakes

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What You’ll Do

Confidential Client is hiring a Software Engineer for the R2 Gateway team to design, build, and operate the S3‑compatible API gateway that serves object storage traffic at global scale. You’ll own request-path systems used on every storage operation, focusing on correctness, low latency, and operational reliability.

• Design, implement, and operate the S3‑compatible API gateway that handles put/get/list/delete operations and ensures API compatibility.
• Build and run high‑throughput production services (Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, or similar) with strong availability and durability SLAs.
• Own the request path end‑to‑end: authentication, authorization, routing, rate limiting, and error handling.
• Write design docs and drive projects from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability while reducing operational toil and ramping into legacy code paths as needed.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, lead incident response, and write postmortems to raise reliability standards.
• Collaborate with storage, metadata, networking, and platform teams to coordinate API contracts and capacity planning.
• Use AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate coding, debugging, and operational workflows.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building production systems (3+ years preferred).
• Proficiency in one or more of Rust, TypeScript, or Go.
• Hands‑on experience with building or operating large‑scale distributed systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
• Experience designing or operating high‑throughput HTTP/API gateways (authentication, routing, rate limiting).
• Solid understanding of observability and reliability practices: monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, incident response.
• Comfortable participating in on‑call rotations and incident management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross‑team coordination.
• Authorized to work in the US for this position (no employer sponsorship provided for export‑controlled technology if applicable).

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Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have Skills

• Familiarity with the S3 API surface or other object storage APIs.
• Experience with edge computing platforms (Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or similar).
• Background working with Kubernetes and containerized production services.
• Prior work on API compatibility, backward‑compatible evolution, and high‑throughput request path engineering.
• Experience integrating AI tools into daily engineering workflows.

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Location & Work Model

• This opening is for Austin, TX (hybrid). Candidates must be able to work from the Austin area as required for on‑site collaboration and interviews.

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Why You’ll Like Working Here

• Work at the intersection of large‑scale distributed systems, storage infrastructure, and edge computing.
• Significant ownership: lead projects end‑to‑end and see your work run in production.
• Collaborative culture focused on reliability, engineering craft, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunity to leverage AI tools as a core part of the engineering workflow.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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