# Principal Systems Engineer - Internal GTM Tools

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cloudflare, we're on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

We are looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our centralized Developer Go-to-Market (GTM) organization. This team functions as a "speedboat" to maintain focus, control direction, and iterate quickly. The successful candidate will own the GTM-facing software and data products our sales motion runs on, end to end.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement features in Golang, Typescript, and SQL.

- Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes.

- Own the data foundation including Query Engine, Workflows, MCP/APIs, and other internal facing products and services.

- Own projects end to end; from design docs and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.

- Participate in on-call rotations, drive incident resolution, and write postmortems that improve reliability.

- Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks.

- Collaborate across teams to coordinate capacity planning, API contracts, and cross-cutting initiatives.

- Embed with Sales, Marketing, Developer Relations (DevRel), and Growth to turn fuzzy operational pain into shipped software.

- Help set the standard for GTM engineering organization wide.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives.

- Deep expertise in building distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale, with proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript.

- Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, identify the highest-impact technical work, and drive projects autonomously from conception through adoption.

- Deep analytical SQL and data modeling experience.

Nice to have:

- Previous experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task force teams that operate outside traditional product roadmaps with a focus on enabling GTM organizations.

- Columnar/OLAP or lakehouse experience (ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, Starrocks).

- Familiarity with the Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations.

- Familiarity with deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes.

- Experience on Cloudflare Workers / edge platforms and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows.

- Background in SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions.

Compensation: The compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

Equity: This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

Benefits: Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.

## Skills

### Required
- Golang
- Typescript
- SQL
- Distributed systems
- Production infrastructure
- Data modeling

### Nice to have
- Columnar/OLAP or lakehouse experience
- Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations
- Deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes
- Cloudflare Workers / edge platforms and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows
- SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions

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