Principal Solutions Architect, APJC (Developer Platform) - Mandarin SpeakingActive

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The opportunity

As a Principal Solutions Architect for the Developer Platform, you will shape and guide the regional technical strategy for our most strategic customer and partner engagements across APJC and Greater China.

What you'll do

  • Shape Strategy: Guide the technical strategy for strategic Developer Platform customers and partners across the region.

  • Design & Translate: Transform complex business, application, security, and operational requirements into secure, scalable, and highly maintainable architectures on Cloudflare.

  • Collaborate & Advise: Partner with engineering executives and senior stakeholders to advise on application modernization, distributed systems, AI architecture, and platform strategy.

  • Facilitate Discovery: Lead architecture discovery sessions, technical workshops, proofs of concept, design reviews, and production-readiness discussions in a supportive, consultative manner.

  • Create Frameworks: Establish reference architectures, architectural standards, and governance patterns that empower our customers and the broader APJC field organization.

  • Stay Hands-On: Build, review, and troubleshoot representative applications and integrations to stay deeply connected to the technology.

What they're looking for

  • Meaningful Experience: A strong background in solutions architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or a related customer-facing technical role. While candidates at the Principal level often bring 15+ years of experience, we care most about your demonstrated scope, impact, and ability to navigate complex architectural challenges.
  • Language Skills: Professional fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese, with the ability to comfortably lead technical and executive discussions in both languages to support clients in the Greater China region, which form a significant part of your portfolio.
  • Strategic Collaboration: A track record of guiding complex technical strategies involving developers, infrastructure teams, security stakeholders, and senior executives.
  • Technical Depth: Deep working knowledge of distributed application architecture (compute, storage, networking, security, reliability, and observability).
  • Hands-On Capability: Software-development experience, including the ability to build or review production-quality applications and proofs of concept (preferably in JavaScript or TypeScript).
  • Ecosystem Knowledge: A strong understanding of modern web technologies, serverless/cloud-native architectures, modern software-delivery practices, and at least one major public cloud platform.
  • Influential Leadership: A proven ability to influence without direct authority, thoughtfully mentor colleagues, and turn individual solutions into shared organizational capabilities.
  • Communication: Excellent written, presentation, and facilitation skills tailored for developer, architectural, and executive audiences.