# Principal Systems Engineer, DevTools

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $281k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Go, Rust, Bash, Kubernetes, GitLab, Confluence, Jira, backstage, mcp, CI/CD, cloudflare workers, ai gateway, llm agents
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Build and operate AI-powered developer tools, internal MCP integrations, and platform capabilities across the engineering organization. The role requires strong coding and debugging skills, Kubernetes operations experience, and the ability to lead projects, improve developer experience, and mentor teammates.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Ship features for AI coding tools.
- Build and improve AI and developer-observability tools.
- Own internal MCP servers, including GitLab, Confluence, Jira, and Backstage integrations.
- Build AI agents.
- Maintain context engineering, including shared configurations, prompt libraries, and agent instructions.
- Integrate AI tooling into CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage security and access controls for AI tools.
- Track organizational adoption and usage.
- Triage and respond to support requests in tool channels.
- Own projects end to end, from roadmap and prioritization through delivery and operations.
- Mentor teammates through code reviews and design feedback.
- Help respond to and prevent incidents affecting tools engineers depend on.

## Requirements
- Strong coding ability in TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Bash.
- Excellent debugging skills.
- Source control experience, including branching, merging, and rebasing.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes or a similar platform.
- Ability to break down complex problems, weigh trade-offs, and drive solutions to completion.
- Experience mentoring and raising engineering quality.
- Experience with, or strong interest in, building tools that improve developer experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building production LLM-based tools, including agents, evaluations, and cost or latency tuning.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and build tooling.
- Experience building on Cloudflare’s platform, including Workers and AI Gateway, or eagerness to learn.
- Experience operating Kubernetes on-premises at scale, including SRE, systems design, or architecture.
- Experience building platforms across multiple zones and regions.
- Prior experience on a platform engineering or developer-productivity team.
- Open-source contributions to developer tooling or AI projects.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Washington, D.C. hires: estimated annual salary of **$230,000–$281,000**.
- Colorado hires: estimated annual salary of **$200,000–$275,000**.
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Health and welfare benefits include medical/Rx, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming benefits, mental health support, employee assistance, and global travel medical insurance.
- Financial benefits include short- and long-term disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock participation plan.
- Flexible paid time off and leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.

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