Senior Software Engineer (Deploy at Scale)

Cloudflare's Infrastructure Team as a Senior Software Engineer in the Deploy@Scale team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare. You will set technical direction across multiple work streams, operate with significant autonomy, and partner directly with your EM and leadership to shape the multi-quarter roadmap. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex, globally distributed systems that underpin every Cloudflare product and directly impact the reliability and velocity of Cloudflare's global network.

Provide technical leadership for the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.

About Cloudflare

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

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across multiple work streams, driving architecture decisions that will hold up over multiple years.
• Collaborate with the team to understand business needs and develop technical solutions, working closely with internal customers.

Requirements

• 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
• Strong written and verbal communication — this role requires writing docs and RFCs that persuade and align, not just describe
• Prior experience owning a deployment, progressive delivery, or change-management platform at scale

Preferred

• 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

Experience leading a technical migration across many independent teams (e.g., a platform sunset/replacement)