Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)
Lead · Гибрид · Остин, США · Английский B2
Навыки
API (интеграции)
Коммуникация
Распределённые системы
DNS / DHCP
Kubernetes
Лидерство
Роадмап
О компании и продукте
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Available Locations: Washington DC, Austin, NYC, San Francisco
Задачи
Too many of Cloudflare's most impactful incidents have had unsafe change as a root cause
The Intent Management exists to make safe change the easy button and this is the most senior IC role in that organization, reporting directly to the Senior Director
You will own the technical coherence of a platform that spans globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, and the testing and health-mediation systems that prove change is safe
You'll work at the seams that matter most by translating what Cloudflare's Edge and control-plane platforms need into the primitives our teams build
You'll move fluidly between writing production code, designing new systems, and reviewing the proposals of other senior engineers
You’ll also help us work out how best to integrate LLMs into our processes and systems
You will be working alongside engineers who have presented at DevOps Days, Config Management Camp 2024 & 2025, Monitorama, OSMC, KubeCon and PromCon
Together you will deliver on the key Health Mediated Deployment projects that are being tracked through senior leadership of Cloudflare up to the founders
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
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 that are 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
Требования
10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide technical initiatives that delivered measurable improvements to system performance, reliability, security, developer productivity, or engineering culture
Будет плюсом
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
Experience with 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 such as conference talks on distributed systems or security, widely-read technical blog posts, significant open source contributions, or published architectural patterns that have been adopted by the broader engineering community
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan
Условия
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family
Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!
The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S
Health & Welfare
Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming
On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company
We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul
Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet
Project Galileo : Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost
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