Principal Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
Cloudflare · In-Office
Posted about 2 months ago · $220,000 - $303,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- high 252 stale, 12 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 494 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Cloudflare's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Cloudflare.
About this role
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Workers Deploy & Config team at Cloudflare, you will lead the architectural evolution of the Workers control plane, focusing on building large-scale systems for deploying and managing serverless applications. Your role involves identifying technical challenges, re-engineering core services, and ensuring the stability of customer-facing systems while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product leadership.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Cloudflare as an employer.
What you need
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
What you get
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
Worth weighing
- No salary listed for U.S. based hires
- Role requires participation in on-call duties
- Position involves mentoring and raising engineering standards, which may require significant leadership skills
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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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