# Principal Content Engineer

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Writing
**Salary:** $458k – $629k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, modern web development, Git, CI/CD, testing, cloudflare workers, serverless computing, edge computing, content architecture, Information Architecture, Technical Writing, content analytics, Experimentation, LLMs
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads the architecture, production, and quality systems for Cloudflare’s developer content, combining exceptional technical writing with production engineering and AI-assisted content tooling. Requires 12+ years across technical content, developer education, and software engineering, plus expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, CI/CD, testing, and content analytics.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the content architecture for Developer GTM, including content types, editorial standards, and quality standards across tutorials, blog posts, sample applications, newsletters, and community and education content.
- Curate, edit, and maintain content for clarity, consistency, freshness, and cohesion.
- Design and operate scalable quality systems, including self-healing pipelines, AI-assisted review and maintenance, CI checks, and quality guardrails.
- Build flagship technical content, including tutorials, reference architectures, and runnable demos for Workers, Workers AI, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, and related developer-platform products.
- Partner with Growth, DevRel, Product, and PMM to map content to the developer journey from discovery and signup through deployment and production usage.
- Define and track content quality and discoverability metrics; use analytics and experimentation to improve results.
- Build AI-assisted content tooling and guardrails and optimize content for discovery and consumption by AI agents and large language models.
- Identify emerging developer behaviors and workloads, including AI agents, MCP servers, vibe coding, multi-tenant applications, and edge-native architectures, and translate them into content and narratives.
- Establish conventions, templates, and tooling that improve accuracy and consistency across GTM content.
- Mentor and coach writers, advocates, and engineers.

## Requirements
- 12+ years at the intersection of technical content, developer education, and software engineering.
- Portfolio demonstrating strong technical writing as well as the ability to build what you write about.
- Exceptional technical writing and editing skills.
- Engineering experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining production tooling.
- Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web development.
- Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and testing.
- Experience building on serverless or edge platforms; Cloudflare Workers experience is a strong plus.
- Experience building automated content systems, including pipelines, CI checks, freshness and validation tooling, and AI-assisted review or maintenance.
- Experience with content analytics and experimentation, including acquisition, activation, and adoption outcomes.
- Experience with information architecture and editorial standards for a substantial technical content surface.
- Knowledge of the developer journey and how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt platforms.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience guiding a content platform migration or redesign.
- Knowledge of evaluation frameworks or observability for AI-powered systems.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For NYC-based hires: estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $317,000.
- For Bay Area-based hires: estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000.
- Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming benefits, mental health support, employee assistance, travel medical insurance, disability insurance, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.

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