Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
Lead architecture and strategy for Cloudflare's Workers control plane as the most senior engineer on the Deploy & Config team. Own distributed systems, high-scale APIs, reliability, and developer experience powering the serverless edge platform.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Investigate and apply emerging technologies to improve the developer platform.
Requirements
- Deep experience using Go in production environments.
- Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with Kubernetes and metrics/observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana, or similar.
- Proven history of architecting, expanding, and managing massive distributed infrastructures in live environments.
- Track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or systems from concept through global release.
- Demonstrated organizational influence through standards-setting, design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Strong ability to design and evolve RESTful APIs with a focus on developer experience.
- Track record of increasing team leverage with AI, including evaluating and introducing AI-assisted development and agentic workflows responsibly.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with C++ or Rust.
- Experience working on a control plane or data plane.
- Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages.
- Experience working in frontend frameworks such as React.
- Experience managing interns or mentoring junior engineers.
- Product mindset and comfort talking to customers and partners.
- Familiarity with GraphQL.
- Familiarity with RPC.
Skills
Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, REST APIs, C++, Rust, GraphQL, Rpc, React
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