We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to establish technical direction across Enterprise Applications and help teams turn that direction into reliable, incremental delivery. You’ll design systems, lead complex cross-team initiatives, influence engineering practices, and remain hands-on with implementation where your contribution has the greatest leverage.

This role requires navigating ambiguity, adapting technical strategy as conditions change, and building alignment across engineering and business stakeholders. You’ll model responsible AI-assisted engineering, operational excellence, sound judgment, and attention to detail.

Establish and communicate technical strategy across multiple teams, translating long-term direction into incremental delivery plans.

Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, deployment, and operation.

Influence technical decisions across teams through design reviews, prototypes, standards, mentoring, and hands-on contributions.

Build and extend AI-enabled systems, including agents, evaluation frameworks, MCP servers, and workflow automation.

Determine when AI is appropriate and when deterministic software offers a safer, simpler, or more reliable solution.

Establish practices for evaluating AI systems, including quality, reliability, security, cost, latency, and human oversight.

Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable platforms, operational tooling, automated diagnostics, and development workflows.

Partner with business and technical stakeholders to convert ambiguous problems into clear technical strategies and measurable outcomes.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

Software Engineer, Enterprise Integrations

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Cloudflare

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