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Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations

Cloudflare· Information Technology
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Principal Engineer to establish technical direction across Enterprise Applications, lead cross-team initiatives, and build AI-enabled integration systems with a hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and communicate technical strategy across multiple teams, translating long-term direction into incremental delivery plans.
  • Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, deployment, and operation.
  • Influence technical decisions across teams through design reviews, prototypes, standards, mentoring, and hands-on contributions.
  • Build and extend AI-enabled systems, including agents, evaluation frameworks, MCP servers, and workflow automation.
  • Determine when AI is appropriate and when deterministic software offers a safer, simpler, or more reliable solution.
  • Establish practices for evaluating AI systems, including quality, reliability, security, cost, latency, and human oversight.
  • Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable platforms, operational tooling, automated diagnostics, and development workflows.
  • Partner with business and technical stakeholders to convert ambiguous problems into clear technical strategies and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience as a guideline
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language.
  • Experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)
  • Experience with AI guardrails/governance best practices
  • Demonstrated experience delivering AI-enabled systems beyond experimentation. Ability to explain individual contribution, evaluation approach, production constraints, failure modes, and outcomes
  • Demonstrated experience influencing technical culture and best practices without authority
  • Familiarity with integration patterns (pub/sub, API-first, CDM, batch processing)
  • Experience working with stakeholders to solve business problems through integration or automation solutions
  • Experience building APIs with proper security and operational practices
  • Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, Kibana, Splunk or similar)
  • Working familiarity with containerized/cloud environments (Kubernetes, or equivalent cloud-native experience)
  • Experience with serverless computing platforms (e.g. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, or Cloudflare Workers)
  • Experience with GitLab or other CI/CD tooling
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation for roughly one week every two months

Skills

Required:Technical strategy deliveryCross-team leadershipAI/LLM integrationBackend development

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits: 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 covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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