Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
About the role
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- 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.
Bonus Points
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.
Pay
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000
Benefits
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
- 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
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.