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

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,000 - $288,000 (Bay Area), $220,000 - $275,000 (Washington and New York City), $200,000 - $250,000 (Austin)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Cloudflare, we're 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.

You will join the Intent Management organization, part of the Foundational Engineering team at Cloudflare, which builds and operates many of the fundamental systems powering Cloudflare's products.

As a Principal Software Engineer, 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.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Translating what Cloudflare's Edge and control-plane platforms need into the primitives our teams build

- Writing production code, designing new systems, and reviewing proposals from other senior engineers

- Helping integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into our processes and systems

- Working on key Health Mediated Deployment projects tracked by senior leadership and founders

Requirements:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated history of leading complex, organization-wide technical initiatives

- Strong track record of technical leadership and influence without direct authority

- Experience designing, building, and managing high-volume, global-scale software applications

- Expertise 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:

- 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

Compensation:

- Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $288,000

- Washington and New York City-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $275,000

- Austin-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $200,000 - $250,000

Benefits:

- Health & Welfare Benefits: 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

- Financial Benefits: 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

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- technical leadership
- distributed systems
- configuration management
- testing and health mediation
- API design
- Large Language Models (LLMs)

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- RocksDB
- Google's Prodspec and Annealing systems
- health checking and probe platforms

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