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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config - **Company:** CloudFlare - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $303,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Prometheus, TypeScript, Datadog, ReactJS, Grafana, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Serverless Computing - **Published:** July 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cbcfe0ddaaa24f44 ## About the Role * 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., * 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 ## Description At Cloudflare, 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., 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., * 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. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) - [Throwing off the burdens of scale in engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/608-throwing-off-the-burdens-of-scale-in-engineering) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 103 - Superb Owl Trafficking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/388-dev-digest-103-superb-owl-trafficking) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix)