Cloudflare
Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
$79K–$266K
In-Office +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States - 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
Leads the architecture and evolution of Cloudflare’s Workers control plane and builds globally scalable systems for deploying, configuring, and managing Workers.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy, identify major engineering challenges, and architect foundational platform capabilities.
- Own the stability, performance, and reliability of core services; establish API benchmarks and participate in on-call.
- Represent the team in design forums, collaborate on roadmaps, and mentor engineers across teams.
What they ask for
- Deep production experience with Go.
- Experience architecting, expanding, and managing large-scale distributed infrastructure in live environments.
- Experience owning architecture across multiple teams or systems, from concept through global release.
- Strong ability to design and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on developer experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript; Kubernetes and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, or similar.
- Experience with C++ or Rust, control planes or data planes, Cloudflare Workers or Pages, React, GraphQL, or RPC.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD base salary; $185,000 - $254,000 USD base salary; €79,000 - €109,000 EUR base salary
Tools
Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, C++, Rust
AI focus
Increase team leverage with AI by evaluating and responsibly introducing AI-assisted development and agentic workflows; investigate emerging technologies to improve the developer platform.
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