Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config

Austin, TXfull time

On Site

$220k–$303k

H1B: no

Cloudflare The Software Engineer on Cloudflare's Workers Deploy & Config team builds large-scale systems for deploying and managing serverless edge applications globally. This senior role leads architectural evolution, re-engineers core services, and ensures system stability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

Join the Workers Deploy & Config team as a Principal Engineer, the most senior technical role on the team behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the critical large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally, powering everything from simple static sites to full-stack applications serving millions of users. This team sits at the foundation of Cloudflare’s developer platform, including Pages and R2. The work spans distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience at global scale.
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.