Principal Content Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Benefits package

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Principal Content Engineer for the Developer Platform. You will lead the content architecture, design scalable content systems, and author flagship content like deep tutorials and runnable demos.

You will drive AI-native tooling, partner with Growth and Product to map content to the developer journey, and shape the learning platform for developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 12+ years at the intersection of technical content, developer education, and software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the content architecture for Developer GTM.

Skills

Technical writing

Engineering depth

TypeScript/JavaScript

Content systems

Content analytics

Editorial standards

Information architecture

Platform migrations

AI-powered systems

Developer journey

Tools

Version control

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Edge/serverless platforms

Job description

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today 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. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you're the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you'll fit right in.

Principal Content Engineer — Developer Platform

Available Locations: Austin, TX (Preferred), San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY

Developer GTM is a cross-functional, fast growing team within the company. We are builders, storytellers, and connectors united by one goal: to make the company the most exciting place for developers to build.

As the Principal Content Engineer, you are the content engine for that growth. You'll translate product reality and industry trends into content that developers actually find, read, build from, and come back to. You'll personally write and build the flagship pieces, including deep tutorials, runnable sample apps, reference architectures, and narratives that make the company the obvious place to build. You'll set the architecture, standards, and tooling that let the whole GTM team produce at quality at scale.

Underpinning all of this is a bigger bet: the way people learn is changing dramatically as the Internet and the web evolve. Search is becoming conversational, AI agents consume content directly, and the static tutorial is no longer the end of the learning journey. We believe the learning platform itself has to be reinvented from first principles, not incrementally improved. This role will help shape the next-generation learning platform, both internally (how the company's own teams learn and ship) and externally (how developers around the world learn to build on our network).

This is a hands‑on, high‑ownership role. You are part principal‑grade writer, part engineer, part systems builder. You own the engine, and you also drive the bus.

What you'll do

• Own the content architecture for Developer GTM. Define the content types, editorial standards, and quality bar across tutorials, blog posts, sample apps, newsletters, and community/education content. Curate and shape what the team produces: edit for clarity and consistency, prune what's stale, and make sure every piece fits the whole.
• Build and run the systems that scale quality. Design self‑healing pipelines, AI‑assisted review and maintenance, CI checks and quality guardrails that catch broken examples, stale versions, and wrong APIs before developers do. You treat content as software: versioned, tested, and continuously improved.
• Write and build flagship content. Produce deep technical tutorials, reference architectures, and runnable demos on the Developer Platform, including Workers, Workers AI, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, and beyond, that developers can clone, run, and learn from in one sitting. Your writing turns complex distributed‑systems concepts into something a developer can build in an afternoon.
• Drive developer acquisition and activation. Partner with Growth, DevRel, Product, and PMM to map content to the developer journey, from discovery and signup, through first deployment, to production usage. Define and track measures of content quality and discoverability, and use analytics and experimentation to keep improving.
• Be the AI‑native edge. Build AI‑assisted content tooling and guardrails, and make sure our content is built to be found and consumed by AI agents and LLMs, not just humans. You're fluent in what AI means for how developers search, learn, and build, and you treat that fluency as the foundation of the next‑gen learning experience, not a nice‑to‑have.
• Read the industry and turn it into motion. Identify emerging developer behaviors and workloads, across AI agents, MCP servers, vibe coding, multi‑tenant applications, and edge‑native architectures, and translate them into narratives and content that position the company as the default platform for how software is being built today.
• Raise the floor. Establish the conventions, templates, and tooling that writers, advocates, and engineers across GTM adopt so their content stays accurate and consistent. Mentor and coach: the bar you set is the bar the team ships to.

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience

• 12+ years at the intersection of technical content, developer education, and software engineering, with a portfolio that shows you can both write beautifully and build what you write about.
• Exceptional technical writing and editing: enough craft to set a high quality bar and standardize it across a large body of work.
• Real engineering depth. You can design, build, ship, and maintain production tooling, with proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web development; familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and testing. You've built things on serverless/edge platforms (the company Workers experience is a strong plus).
• Experience building automated content systems, including pipelines, CI checks, freshness/validation tooling, and AI‑assisted review or maintenance.
• Content analytics and experimentation chops. You measure what works, tie content to acquisition/activation/adoption outcomes, and let data drive the roadmap.
• Information architecture and editorial standards experience for a substantial technical content surface.
• Experience establishing editorial standards and information architecture for a substantial technical site or program.
• Experience guiding a content platform migration or redesign is a plus.
• Knowledge of evaluation frameworks or observability for AI‑powered systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of the developer journey and how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt platforms. You know what makes a tutorial convert and what makes a narrative land.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For NYC based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $317,000
• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in the company's equity plan.

Benefits

the company offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build ca