Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)

Cloudflare
Washington DC, Austin, San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 200,000 - 288,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Influence","Mentoring","Communication","Bias towards action"]

Lead a highly distributed platform for safe change across globally replicated key-value storage, progressive release, configuration delivery, and the testing/health-mediation systems that validate deployments. This is the most senior IC role in Intent Management, translating what Cloudflare’s edge and control-plane require into reusable engineering primitives. You’ll write production code, design new systems, review proposals from senior engineers, and help integrate LLMs into deployment processes to ship safer changes at scale.

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Cloudflare
Cloudflare
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Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)

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Job Summary

Lead a highly distributed platform for safe change across globally replicated key-value storage, progressive release, configuration delivery, and the testing/health-mediation systems that validate deployments. This is the most senior IC role in Intent Management, translating what Cloudflare’s edge and control-plane require into reusable engineering primitives. You’ll write production code, design new systems, review proposals from senior engineers, and help integrate LLMs into deployment processes to ship safer changes at scale.
Location: Washington DC, Austin, San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical coherence of a globally distributed platform spanning key-value storage, progressive release, configuration delivery, and testing/health-mediation systems.
  • •Translate needs from Cloudflare’s edge and control-plane platforms into engineering primitives used by teams.
  • •Work across the full lifecycle by writing production code, designing new systems, and reviewing senior engineers’ proposals.
  • •Integrate LLMs into internal processes and systems to improve how change is planned, tested, and deployed.
  • •Deliver Health Mediated Deployment projects in coordination with senior leadership and cross-functional engineering teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 288,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveParental LeaveDisability Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience leading complex, organization-wide initiatives that improved performance, reliability, security, developer productivity, or engineering culture.
  • •Strong technical leadership and influence without direct authority, including driving consensus across multiple teams and mentoring senior engineers.
  • •Experience designing, building, and managing high-volume global scale software applications.
  • •Expert in at least one modern strongly-typed programming language.
  • •Knowledge of API design standards, patterns, and best practices, including experience working with top-tier LLMs to plan, write, test, and deploy software.
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsGlobal scaleConfiguration managementLLMDeveloper productivity
Skills:Technical leadershipInfluenceMentoringCommunicationBias towards action
Tech Stack:KubernetesRocksDBLLMsAPI designKey-value storageConfiguration deliveryHealth checkingHealth mediationProgressive release

Company Brief

Cloudflare
Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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