Principal Content Engineer

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.

As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. 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. 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.

Available Locations:​

Austin, TX (Preferred), San Francisco, CA, or New York, NY

Developer GTM is a cross-functional, fast growing team within

Cloudflare. We are builders, storytellers, and connectors united by one goal: to make Cloudflare the most exciting place for

developers to build.

As the Principal Content Engineer​, you are the content engine for that growth. You’ll

translate product reality and industry trends into content that developers actually find, read, build from, and come back to.

You'll personally write and build the flagship pieces, including deep tutorials, runnable sample apps, reference architectures,

and narratives that make Cloudflare the obvious place to build. You'll set the architecture, standards, and tooling that let the

whole GTM team produce at quality at scale.

Underpinning all of this is a bigger bet: the way people learn is changing

dramatically as the Internet and the web evolve. Search is becoming conversational, AI agents consume content directly, and the

static tutorial is no longer the end of the learning journey. We believe the learning platform itself has to be reinvented from

first principles, not incrementally improved. This role will help shape the next-generation learning platform, both internally

(how Cloudflare's own teams learn and ship) and externally (how developers around the world learn to build on our network).

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You are part principal-grade writer, part engineer, part systems builder. You own the

engine, and you also drive the bus.

What you'll do​

• Own the content architecture for Developer GTM. Define

the content types, editorial standards, and quality bar across tutorials, blog posts, sample apps, newsletters, and

community/education content. Curate and shape what the team produces: edit for clarity and consistency, prune what's stale, and

make sure every piece fits the whole.

• Build and run the systems that scale quality. Design self-healing pipelines,

AI-assisted review and maintenance, CI checks, and quality guardrails that catch broken examples, stale versions, and wrong APIs

before developers do. You treat content as software: versioned, tested, and continuously improved.

• Write and build

flagship content. Produce deep technical tutorials, reference architectures, and runnable demos on the Developer Platform,

including Workers, Workers AI, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, and beyond, that developers can clone, run, and learn from in one

sitting. Your writing turns complex distributed-systems concepts into something a developer can build in an afternoon.

• Drive developer acquisition and activation. Partner with Growth, DevRel, Product, and PMM to map content to the developer

journey, from discovery and signup, through first deployment, to production usage. Define and track measures of content quality

and discoverability, and use analytics and experimentation to keep improving.

• Be the AI-native edge. Build AI-assisted

content tooling and guardrails, and make sure our content is built to be found and consumed by AI agents and LLMs, not just

humans. You're fluent in what AI means for how developers search, learn, and build, and you treat that fluency as the foundation

of the next-gen learning experience, not a nice-to-have.

• Read the industry and turn it into motion. Identify emerging

developer behaviors and workloads, across AI agents, MCP servers, vibe coding, multi-tenant applications, and edge-native

architectures, and translate them into narratives and content that position Cloudflare as the default platform for how software is

being built today.

• Raise the floor. Establish the conventions, templates, and tooling that writers, advocates, and

engineers across GTM adopt so their content stays accurate and consistent. Mentor and coach: the bar you set is the bar the team

ships to.

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience​

• 12+ years at the intersection of technical

content, developer education, and software engineering, with a portfolio that shows you can both write beautifully and build what

you write about.

• Exceptional technical writing and editing: enough craft to set a high quality bar and standardize it

across a large body of work.

• Real engineering depth. You can design, build, ship, and maintain production tooling, with

proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern web development; familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and testing. You've

built things on serverless/edge platforms (Cloudflare Workers experience is a strong plus).

• Experience building automated

content systems, including pipelines, CI checks, freshness/validation tooling, and AI-assisted review or maintenance.

• Content analytics and experimentation chops. You measure what works, tie content to acquisition/activation/adoption outcomes,

and let data drive the roadmap.

• Information architecture and editorial standards experience for a substantial technical

content surface.

• Experience establishing editorial standards and information architecture for a substantial technical

site or program.

• Experience guiding a content platform migration or redesign is a plus.
• Knowledge of evaluation

frameworks or observability for AI-powered systems is a plus.

• Knowledge of the developer journey and how developers

discover, evaluate, and adopt platforms. You know what makes a tutorial convert and what makes a narrative land.

• For NYC based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $317,000
• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $303,000

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your

family.  Our 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 benefits for employees in the United States, and

benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter

Spending Accounts

• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee

Assistance Program

• Global Travel Medical Insurance

• Short

and Long Term Disability Insurance

• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Flexible paid time off covering

vacation and sick leave

• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company

with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo​: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries

with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by

Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian

Project​: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local

governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election

information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites

in 33 states.

1.1.1.1​: We

released 1.1.1.1 to

help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is

available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal -

we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

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.

This position may require access to information protected

under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may

be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship

for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and

inclusiveness.  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. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled

Employer.

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