# Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000 - $303,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Summary

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 critical large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally.

## 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.

- 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 Have

- 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.

## Compensation

Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000 for New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires.

## 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.

### 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

### Financial Benefits

- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

- Life & Accident Insurance

- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

- Employee Stock Participation Plan

### Time Off

- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave

- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- distributed systems
- RESTful APIs
- AI-assisted development

### Nice to have
- C++
- Rust
- Cloudflare Workers
- Pages
- React
- GraphQL
- RPC

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