Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & ConfigActive$220K–$303K
The opportunity
Join the Workers Deploy & Config team as a Principal Engineer, the most senior technical role on the team behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the critical large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally,…
What you'll do
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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
