Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of owning the architecture of complex, distributed, production-critical systems end to end.
• Demonstrated technical leadership beyond your own code: driving RFCs and design reviews that other senior engineers and teams rely on, and being sought out as a technical escalation point.
• Judgment for ambiguity — comfortable defining the problem and the roadmap, not just the solution, in an environment where requirements are not fully specified upfront.
• Deep experience with safety, observability, and automation in production systems: designing rollback paths, health signals, and guardrails that other systems and teams build on top of.
• Experience influencing technical direction across team boundaries — through architecture, mentorship, or platform APIs/contracts — without direct authority.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running/durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems is a strong plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication — this role requires writing docs and RFCs that persuade and align, not just describe.

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing technical leadership for the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.
• Operating with significant autonomy, identifying the right problems to solve, and driving architecture decisions.
• Unblocking and elevating the rest of the team through mentorship and technical guidance.
• Defining the platform, making tradeoffs for future scalability, and shaping the multi-quarter roadmap.

Perks and Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
• Complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family, including health & welfare benefits, financial benefits, and time off.