Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
Cloudflare · In-Office
About this role
### About Cloudflare At Cloudflare, we’re on a mission to help build a better Internet. We operate 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. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online—without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare route web traffic through our intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, customers see significant performance improvements and decreases in spam and other attacks. We’ve been recognized on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. ### About the Role 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**, 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. **Position Locations:** Austin, TX | New York City, NY | Washington, DC ### 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.
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