Senior Software Engineer (Deploy at Scale)

• 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
• Where we’re heading:
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
• Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
• Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
• Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
• Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members’ commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
• Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.- 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
• 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
• Judgment for ambiguity — comfortable defining the problem and the roadmap, not just the solution, in an environment where requirements are not fully specified upfront
• 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
• Strong written and verbal communication — this role requires writing docs and RFCs that persuade and align, not just describe
• Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running/durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems is a strong plus
• 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
• 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)