← All roles

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

Cloudflare· Infrastructure
Apply on company site
Hybrid (Washington DC, Austin, NYC, San Francisco)$230k - $288kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor leading the safety-driven change and deployment platform within Cloudflare’s Intent Management organization. Focused on globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, testing and health-mediation systems, with opportunities to integrate LLMs and influence architectural patterns across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical coherence of a platform spanning globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, and the testing and health-mediation systems that prove change is safe.
  • Translate edge/control-plane needs into primitives that other teams build.
  • Write production code, design new systems, and review proposals from other senior engineers.
  • Help integrate LLMs into processes and systems.
  • Collaborate with engineers across incidents to make safe change the easy button.
  • Contribute to key Health Mediated Deployment projects tracked through senior leadership.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a history of leading complex, organization-wide technical initiatives that improved performance, reliability, security, developer productivity, or engineering culture.
  • Strong track record of technical leadership and influence without direct authority, including driving consensus on technical decisions across multiple teams, mentoring senior engineers, and establishing architectural patterns widely adopted across an organization.
  • 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.
  • Experience working with top tier LLMs to plan, write, test, and deploy software.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipSystem design and architectureStrongly-typed programming languageAPI designAI/LLM integration

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and EAP, Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k), Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off for vacation and sick leave, parental/pregnancy/medical/bereavement leave
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cloudflare

Connect, protect, and build everywhere | Cloudflare

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

NetworkingSecurityPerformanceDeveloper PlatformAI
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Cloudflare