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About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Deploy@Scale team, you will provide technical leadership for the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare. This is a senior IC role where you will set technical direction across multiple work streams, operate with significant autonomy, identify the right problems to solve, drive architecture decisions, and influence how engineering teams think about safe change. You will partner with leadership to shape the roadmap and be a primary technical voice in cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives. You will also unblock and elevate the team by reviewing designs, pairing on problems, and raising the technical bar through mentorship.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.
Set technical direction across multiple work streams.
Operate with significant autonomy.
Identify the right problems to solve.
Drive architecture decisions that will hold up over multiple years.
Influence how dozens of engineering teams across Cloudflare think about safe change.
Partner directly with your EM and leadership to shape the multi-quarter roadmap.
Be a primary technical voice in cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives that touch deployment safety.
Unblock and elevate the rest of the team by reviewing designs before they become code.
Pair on the hardest problems.
Raise the technical bar through mentorship.
Define what the platform is.
Decide what not to build.
Make the tradeoffs which ensure the system is safe, fast, and scalable five years from now.
Collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions.
Work closely with internal customers to turn their workflows into platform capabilities.
Be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

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.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with AI as a working tool: fluent use of AI-assisted development, critical evaluation of its output, and a point of view on where it should and shouldn't be trusted in a safety-critical system.
Strong written and verbal communication — this role requires writing docs and RFCs that persuade and align, not just describe.
Prior experience owning a deployment, progressive delivery, or change-management platform at scale.
Experience leading a technical migration across many independent teams (e.g., a platform sunset/replacement).
Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license may be a condition of employment.

Skills

AI-assisted development
Critical evaluation of AI output
Safety in production systems
Observability in production systems
Automation in production systems
Designing rollback paths
Designing health signals
Designing guardrails
Workflow orchestration
Long-running/durable execution
Large-scale distributed systems
Written communication
Verbal communication

Location

Austin, TX (US)

Work Type

On-call outside of standard working hours

Experience Level

Senior
8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

Benefits

Equity
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
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

About the Company

Cloudflare 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.
Cloudflare’s Infrastructure Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month.
We ensure that all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing, global customer base.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.
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.