Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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: you will set technical direction across multiple work streams, not just execute within one. You'll be expected to operate with significant autonomy - identifying the right problems to solve, driving architecture decisions that will hold up over multiple years, and influencing how dozens of engineering teams across Cloudflare think about safe change. You will partner directly with your EM and leadership to shape the multi-quarter roadmap, and you'll be a primary technical voice in cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives that touch deployment safety. You'll spend meaningful time unblocking and elevating the rest of the team: reviewing designs before they become code, pairing on the hardest problems, and raising the technical bar through mentorship - without needing to be a people manager to do it. You'll be defining what the platform is, deciding what not to build, and making the tradeoffs which ensure the system is safe, fast, and scalable five years from now. From human-in-the-loop to machine-in-the-loop: fully automated, health-mediated deployments as the default, at hundreds of thousands of releases a day. Consolidating a fragmented landscape: unifying release orchestration, health mediation, feature flagging, and configuration rollback into one coherent platform. AI as a first-class part of the platform : you'll help define where and how AI assists both the platform and the humans operating it. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems that underpin every Cloudflare product. You will play a key role in advancing the infrastructure that enables fast, safe delivery of changes to production, directly impacting the reliability and velocity of Cloudflare's global network. You will collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions, working closely with internal customers to turn their workflows into platform capabilities. You will thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment with short release cycles. This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running/durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems is a strong plus.
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).

Responsibilities

Set technical direction across multiple work streams.
Operate with significant autonomy, identifying problems, driving architecture decisions, and influencing how engineering teams think about safe change.
Partner with EM and leadership to shape the multi-quarter roadmap.
Act as a primary technical voice in cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives.
Unblock and elevate the team by reviewing designs, pairing on problems, and mentoring.
Define the platform, decide what not to build, and make tradeoffs for safety, speed, and scalability.
Advance infrastructure for fast, safe delivery of changes to production.
Collaborate to understand business needs and develop technical solutions.
Turn internal customer workflows into platform capabilities.

Benefits

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
Equity