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Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale

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Job type
Full-time
Posted
9 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

The Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale position at Cloudflare is a senior individual contributor role focused on providing technical leadership for deployment platforms. This hybrid opportunity suits an experienced engineer who excels at building resilient, automated, and safe release systems for massive global infrastructures.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Deploy@Scale team, you will drive the technical direction for platforms that power safe, reliable, and automated deployments. You will operate with significant autonomy, setting multi-quarter roadmaps alongside leadership and influencing dozens of engineering teams. This role involves defining the future of deployment orchestration, integrating health mediation, and leveraging AI as a first-class tool for system operations.

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the platform powering safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.
Shape multi-quarter roadmaps in partnership with engineering management and leadership.
Serve as a primary technical voice in cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives.
Unblock and elevate team members by reviewing designs, pairing on complex challenges, and mentoring engineers.
Define platform boundaries, make architectural tradeoffs, and decide what capabilities to build or omit.
Help transition from human-in-the-loop to fully automated, health-mediated deployments at scale.
Consolidate release orchestration, health mediation, feature flagging, and configuration rollback into a cohesive platform.

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 individual coding, including driving RFCs and design reviews.
Strong judgment for ambiguity and defining problem spaces where requirements are not fully specified upfront.
Deep experience with safety, observability, and automation in production systems.
Ability to influence technical direction across team boundaries without direct authority.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with AI-assisted development tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for authoring persuasive documentation and RFCs.

Nice to Have

Prior experience owning a deployment, progressive delivery, or change-management platform at scale.
Experience leading a technical migration across many independent teams, such as a platform sunset or replacement.
Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running or durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems.

Skills and Tools

AI-assisted development tools and critical evaluation of AI outputs.
Production safety, observability, and automation design.
Workflow orchestration and large-scale distributed systems.

Salary and Benefits

Cloudflare offers equity plan participation alongside comprehensive health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, and global travel medical insurance. Financial support includes short and long-term disability, life and accident insurance, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an employee stock participation plan. Employees also receive flexible paid time off for vacation and sick leave, diverse family and medical leave programs, and fertility benefits.

About the Company

Cloudflare operates one of the world's largest networks, helping power and protect millions of websites and internet properties globally without requiring additional hardware or software. Recognized for its innovative culture, the company is dedicated to building a better internet through initiatives like Project Galileo, the Athenian Project, and privacy-focused tools like the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver.

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please visit the official Cloudflare careers page to submit your application details.

Questions candidates ask

What experience level is required for this role?

Candidates must have 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of owning complex distributed system architectures end-to-end.

Is this a people management role?

No, this is a senior individual contributor role that focuses on technical leadership, architecture, and mentorship rather than direct people management.

What location is associated with this job?

This position is offered as a hybrid role.

What benefits are included with employment?

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), equity plan participation, flexible paid time off, and various family and medical leave programs.

How should I submit my application?

Interested applicants should apply directly through the official Cloudflare careers page.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Cloudflare careers page.

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