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Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

Cloudflare· Emerging Technology and Incubation
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Austin, TX | Lisbon, Portugal€79k - €109kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Principal Engineer role leading the Workers Deploy & Config team, building large-scale systems to deploy, configure, and manage Cloudflare Workers globally, with focus on distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience at global scale.

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.

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.

Skills

Required:GoJavaScript/TypeScriptKubernetesDistributed systemsAPI design (RESTful)
Nice to have:AI in development

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits described (Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance)
  • Financial Benefits (Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan)
  • Time Off (Flexible paid time off, parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave)
  • Equity eligibility
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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