“Available Locations: Austin, TX” but you labeled it remote globally?

The guidance on Hackernews is:

> Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

We have preferences in terms of where we hire, but remote work is an option depending on the individual and where they are located.

I would clarify this in the HN post. As it is right now, it looks like this is a remote first role when the reality is it is a hybrid role. Just because you might be willing to make an exception doesn't make it a remote role.

I said what I meant in the original HN post. I would encourage folks with relevant experience and interest to apply regardless of location. The bulk of the current team, myself included, is remote and has been for years.

Are all of your positions like that, or only durable objects? I was always interested but the defined locations in the job descriptions held me back from applying.

This, like most parts of the application process, are team dependent at Cloudflare. I manage another team, Cloudflare D1, and I do not see myself hiring someone for that team that is not willing to do hybrid in Austin or London. The existing team works well being in the office.

“The job description says remote on HN, but it says hybrid Austin on the jobs page, but disregard that, it can be remote like I originally said. But also some teams are only going to be hybrid no matter what.

So some jobs are hybrid onsite and some are fully remote but even if i said just now that all jobs can be remote, some jobs aren’t really fully remote because I can’t envision it in my mind that they would be effective fully remote, even though I myself am fully remote.”

Did I understand what you wrote properly?

Are you okay?

can we get a referral on these if we apply?

Subject: Re: Durable Objects – Senior Systems Engineer

Hi Josh,

Thanks for sharing this. I’m very interested in the Senior Systems Engineer role on Durable Objects.

My background is in building and operating production distributed systems and backend services, with a strong focus on correctness, state management, failure handling, and observability. Stateful systems at scale are exactly the kind of problems I enjoy working on.

I’ll apply via the Greenhouse link, and happy to provide more context if helpful.

Best, Son Nguyen