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.

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-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

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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