Cloudflare
Principal Engineer - GTM Data Platform
Hybrid +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
Austin, TX, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Owns and builds Cloudflare’s go-to-market software and data products, including sales tools, account signals, and the data foundation that supports developer sales and customer journeys.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, and monitor production services and data products, including end-to-end ownership and on-call incident response.
- Improve pipeline visibility and build tools that help sales teams identify when to engage customers; deliver cross-functional projects with partner teams.
- Work with Sales, Marketing, Developer Relations, and Growth to turn operational needs into software and help establish engineering standards.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives.
- Expertise in distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale; proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
- Deep analytical SQL and data modeling experience, including managing complexity across thousands of tables.
- Ability to debug database and query performance issues using profiling tools and source code where applicable.
Nice to have
- Experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task force teams enabling GTM organizations.
- Experience with columnar/OLAP or lakehouse technologies, Salesforce data models and integrations, bare metal and Kubernetes, Cloudflare Workers or edge platforms, dbt, or SaaS/PLG GTM.
Tools
Golang, Typescript, SQL, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery
AI focus
Use AI tools extensively as a core workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks; the role also includes applied AI.
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