Principal Solutions Architect, Developer Platform (APJC) - Mandarin Speaking

About the role

Cloudflare is hiring a Principal Solutions Architect for its Developer GTM organization, based in Singapore. The role shapes and guides the regional technical strategy for strategic customer and partner engagements across APJC and Greater China, partnering with engineering leaders, architects, developers, security teams and executives to define architectures and move production workloads onto Cloudflare. It is a senior, individual-contributor role reporting to the Director of Developer GTM, APJC.

Key responsibilities

• Guide the technical strategy for strategic Developer Platform customers and partners across the region.
• Translate business, application, security and operational requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable architectures on Cloudflare.
• Advise executives and senior stakeholders on application modernization, distributed systems, AI architecture and platform strategy.
• Lead architecture discovery sessions, workshops, proofs of concept, design reviews and production-readiness discussions.
• Create reference architectures, architectural standards and governance patterns, and publish reusable field guidance.
• Build, review and troubleshoot representative applications and integrations.
• Mentor solutions architects and technical colleagues, and bridge feedback between customers, field teams and product leaders.

Required profile

• Background in solutions architecture, software engineering, technical consulting or a similar customer-facing technical role; 15+ years typical at Principal level, but scope and impact matter most.
• Professional fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese, able to lead technical and executive discussions in both languages.
• Track record of guiding complex technical strategies with developers, infrastructure teams, security stakeholders and executives.
• Ability to influence without direct authority, mentor colleagues and travel up to 30% within APJC and mainland China.

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of distributed application architecture (compute, storage, networking, security, reliability, observability).
• Software development experience, including building or reviewing production applications and PoCs (JavaScript or TypeScript preferred).
• Understanding of modern web technologies, serverless/cloud-native architectures, modern software delivery and at least one major public cloud platform.
• Nice to have: production experience on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, AI inference or agentic applications, Greater China community connections, public speaking or technical writing, cloud certifications, and a CS or engineering degree.