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

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own the technical coherence of a platform spanning globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, and testing/health-mediation systems
• ▹Translate what Cloudflare's Edge and control-plane platforms need into the primitives teams build
• ▹Move fluidly between writing production code, designing new systems, and reviewing the proposals of other senior engineers
• ▹Help integrate LLMs into processes and systems
• ▹Deliver on key Health Mediated Deployment projects tracked through senior leadership up to the founders

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide technical initiatives delivering measurable improvements to 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 teams, mentoring senior engineers, and establishing widely adopted architectural patterns
• ▹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

Nice to have

• ▹Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
• ▹Experience scaling and simplifying high scale Configuration Management systems
• ▹Familiarity with Google's Prodspec and Annealing systems
• ▹Experience with Kubernetes
• ▹Experience with RocksDB or similar data stores
• ▹Experience with health checking and probe platforms at significant scale
• ▹Public evidence of technical leadership: conference talks on distributed systems or security, widely-read technical blog posts, significant open source contributions, or published architectural patterns adopted by the broader engineering community

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹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
• ▹Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
• ▹Eligibility to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan

About the company

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. It runs one of the world's largest networks, powering 25+ million Internet properties and millions of businesses worldwide. Cloudflare has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies.