Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
$220k - $303k • In-Office
Posted 10d ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural evolution of the Workers control plane and define its multi-year strategy.
- Identify high-leverage technical challenges and translate ambiguous problems into actionable engineering paths.
- Re-engineer core services to accommodate exponential traffic growth.
- Architect foundational primitives to enable new product capabilities and categories.
- Ensure the stability and efficiency of a core customer-facing system.
- Establish rigorous benchmarks for API responsiveness, availability, and reliability.
- Participate in on-call rotations to maintain global platform availability.
- Collaborate with Product and engineering leadership to shape future roadmaps.
- Act as the primary technical representative for Workers Deploy & Config in major design forums.
- Mentor mid-level and senior engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.
- Investigate and apply emerging technologies to enhance the developer platform.
Requirements
- Deep experience using Go in production environments.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with Kubernetes and metrics/observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
- 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 to 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.
Benefits
- Equity plan
- 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