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Principal Engineer

Cloudflare· Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin)Posted 5d ago

About the role

Role focused on edge CDN proxy services, speed improvement, caching, and connectivity to customer origins. Leadership for small engineering teams to build and operate services that make Cloudflare fastest to serve content.

Responsibilities

  • Work on edge CDN proxy services and products focusing on customer speed improvement, caching systems, and connectivity to customer origins.
  • Lead small groups of engineers, building products and operating services to improve performance and reliability.

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years experience as a hands-on engineer
  • Experience operating high performance and large scale software systems
  • Experience leading teams of engineers to deliver projects
  • Experience working on multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities
  • Detailed knowledge of HTTP and transport protocols
  • Working with other teams, maintaining clear lines of communication across and upwards in an organisation
  • Customer focused experience – building what customers need
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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