Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
About The Position
Join the Workers Deploy & Config team as a Principal Engineer, the most senior technical role on the team behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the critical large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally, powering everything from simple static sites to full-stack applications serving millions of users. This team sits at the foundation of Cloudflare’s developer platform, including Pages and R2. The work spans distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience at global scale.
Requirements
- Deep experience using Go in production environments.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with Kubernetes and metrics/observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana, or similar.
- Proven history of architecting, expanding, and managing massive distributed infrastructures in live environments.
- Track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or systems from concept through global release.
- Demonstrated organizational influence through standards-setting, design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Strong ability to design and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on developer experience.
- Track record of increasing team leverage with AI, including evaluating and introducing AI-assisted development and agentic workflows responsibly.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with C++ or Rust.
- Experience working on a control plane or data plane.
- Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages.
- Experience working in frontend frameworks such as React.
- Experience managing interns or mentoring junior engineers.
- Product mindset and comfort talking to customers and partners.
- Familiarity with GraphQL
- Familiarity with RPC
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural evolution of the Workers control plane and help define its multi-year strategy.
- Identify high-leverage technical challenges and turn ambiguous problems into actionable engineering paths.
- Re-engineer core services to keep ahead of exponential traffic growth.
- Architect foundational primitives that unlock new product capabilities and categories.
- Own the stability and efficiency of a core customer-facing system.
- Establish rigorous benchmarks for API responsiveness, availability, and reliability.
- Participate in on-call to help maintain global platform availability.
- Collaborate with Product and engineering leadership to shape future roadmaps.
- Serve as the primary technical representative for Workers Deploy & Config in major design forums.
- Mentor mid-level and senior engineers and raise overall engineering standards.
- Investigate and apply emerging technologies to improve the developer platform.
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 This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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