Principal AI-Driven DevTools Engineer

CloudFlare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Health & Welfare Benefits

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Developer Tooling team to build and operate AI tools used by thousands of engineers daily. The role combines hands-on engineering with operational ownership, embedded with the DevTools Engineering Manager, and focuses on improving productivity and the developer experience across Cloudflare’s platforms.

You will mentor teammates, own end-to-end projects, and help scale AI-assisted development, while addressing security, access control, and

Qualifications

• Strong coding ability in TypeScript, Go, Rust and Bash.
• Source control experience including branching, merging, and rebasing.
• Experience deploying and operating on Kubernetes or a similar platform.
• Comfort breaking down complex problems, weighing trade-offs, and driving them to done.

Responsibilities

• Ship features for our AI coding tools.
• Build and improve AI and other developer-observability tools.
• Build AI agents.
• Maintain our context engineering: shared configs, prompt libraries, and agent instructions.
• Handle security and access controls for AI tools.
• Track adoption and usage across the org.
• Triage and respond to support in our tool channels.
• Own projects end to end - roadmap, prioritization, delivery and operation.
• Mentor teammates and raise the bar through code review and design feedback.
• Help respond to and prevent incidents on the tools engineers depend on.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Bash

Kubernetes

CI/CD

DevEx

LLM Tools

Cloudflare Platform

Mentoring

Tools

Git

Build tooling

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Developer Tooling team to build and operate AI tools used by thousands of engineers daily. The role combines hands-on engineering with operational ownership, embedded with the DevTools Engineering Manager, and focuses on improving productivity and the developer experience across Cloudflare’s platforms.

You will mentor teammates, own end-to-end projects, and help scale AI-assisted development, while addressing security, access control, and