Cloudflare
Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)
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USA
Role overview
Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment)
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230,000 - $288,000
- For Washington and New York City based hired: Estimated annual salary of $220,000 - $275,000
- For Austin based hired: Estimated annual salary of $200,000 - $250,000
- 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 covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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