Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)
CloudflareBase Salary
$200k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical coherence of a platform spanning globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, testing, and health mediation.
- Translate the needs of Cloudflare’s Edge and control-plane platforms into reusable system primitives.
- Write production code, design new systems, and review proposals from senior engineers.
- Lead Health Mediated Deployment projects tracked by Cloudflare senior leadership and founders.
- Drive technical decisions and organization-wide initiatives through influence, consensus building, mentoring, and architectural leadership.
- Help determine how to integrate LLMs into engineering processes and systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience leading complex, organization-wide technical initiatives with measurable improvements.
- Strong technical leadership and influence without direct authority, including cross-team consensus building, mentoring senior engineers, and establishing widely adopted architectural patterns.
- Experience designing, building, and managing high-volume, global-scale software applications.
- Expertise in at least one modern strongly typed programming language.
- Knowledge of API design standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Experience using top-tier LLMs to plan, write, test, and deploy software.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias toward action.
- Experience scaling and simplifying high-scale configuration management systems is a bonus.
- Familiarity with Google’s Prodspec and Annealing systems is a bonus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, RocksDB or similar data stores, and large-scale health-checking and probe platforms is a bonus.
- Public evidence of technical leadership through conference talks, technical blog posts, open-source contributions, or adopted architectural patterns is a bonus.
- Applicants may need authorization to access technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Benefits
- Medical/Rx, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending and commuter spending accounts
- Fertility and family-forming benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global travel medical insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance, life and accident insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan and employee stock participation plan
- Flexible paid time off and parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
- Available in Washington DC, Austin, New York City, and San Francisco; offer-stage candidates may be asked to attend an in-person interview
Tech Stack
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.