Principal Engineer, Global Workers Deploy & Config

Cloudflare; United States; On-site; USD 220,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Spending Accounts

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

On-demand mental health support

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Short and Long Term Disability

Life & Accident Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Parental/Family leave

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Workers Deploy & Config team to design and scale large‑scale systems that empower developers to deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally. You will influence architecture across teams and drive reliability, performance, and developer experience at a global scale.

You will work with Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Kubernetes, shaping multi‑year strategy, mentoring engineers, and advancing AI‑assisted development while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Go production

JavaScript/TypeScript

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

REST APIs

AI-assisted development

Distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

React

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Workers Deploy & Config team to design and scale large‑scale systems that empower developers to deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally. You will influence architecture across teams and drive reliability, performance, and developer experience at a global scale.

You will work with Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Kubernetes, shaping multi‑year strategy, mentoring engineers, and advancing AI‑assisted development while collaborating with