engineering
Posted 3 hours agoPrincipal Systems Engineer - Internal GTM Tools
at LazyApply
Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features in a Golang, Typescript and SQL.
- Build and operate production services on Cloudflare Workers and Kubernetes.
- Own the data foundation including Query Engine, Workflows, MCP/APIs and other internal facing products and services.
- Own projects end to end; from design docs and schema changes through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
- Collaborate across teams to coordinate capacity planning, API contracts, and cross cutting initiatives.
Requirements
- As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
- We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.
- Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.
- If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- Created in January 2025, our centralized Developer Go-to-Market (GTM) organization functions as a "speedboat" to maintain focus, control direction, and iterate quickly.
- You'll own the GTM-facing software and data products our sales motion runs on, end to end.
- The work is a mix of data engineering, full-stack product, and applied AI, and you'll build it on Cloudflare's own developer platform.
- Use AI tools extensively to accelerate development, debugging, and operational tasks. We expect engineers to leverage AI as a core part of their workflow.
- Help set the standard for GTM engineering organization wide. Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:
- experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide data initiatives.
- Deep expertise in building distributed systems and production infrastructure at scale, with proficiency in Go and strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
- Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces, identify the highest-impact technical work, and drive projects autonomously from conception through adoption—balancing pragmatic execution with long-term technical excellence.
- Deep analytical SQL and data modeling experience. Proven ability to manage complexity even at thousands of tables.
- experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff+ engineer, or technical leader on platform, infrastructure, or task force teams that operate outside traditional product roadmaps with a focus on enabling GTM organizations.
- experience (ClickHouse, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake, Iceberg, Starrocks).Familiarity with the Salesforce data model and CRM/API integrations.
- Familiarity with deploying to bare metal and Kubernetes. •
- Experience on Cloudflare Workers / edge platforms and analytics-engineering (dbt) workflows.
- Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
- Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering
Benefits
- Background in SaaS or product-led growth (PLG) GTM motions. Compensation
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. Equity
- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits
- benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our
- Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
- All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
Contact
- Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Additional details
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet.
- Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
- Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
- Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request.
- Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with.
- Our mission is to build long-term relationships with developers by addressing their unique needs and challenges with specialized attention and resources.
- Our team operates across four core pillars: Marketing, Developer Relations, Growth Programs, and Sales.
- These functions work in close collaboration to support customers throughout their journey, from raising awareness and inspiring new use cases to driving platform adoption, consumption, and scaling customer relationships.
- Each function amplifies the impact of the others through strategic partnerships and shared insights. What you'll do