# Senior Software Engineer, Deploy at Scale

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Deployment Automation, Workflow Orchestration, Observability, Feature Flagging, Configuration Management, Rollback Strategies, Health Signals, Rfcs, Ai-Assisted Development
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Provides technical leadership for a globally distributed deployment platform, shaping architecture, roadmap, safety mechanisms, and cross-team adoption. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and strong influence and communication skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for a platform enabling safe, reliable, and automated deployments.
- Set technical direction across multiple work streams and drive multi-year architecture decisions.
- Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with engineering management and leadership.
- Lead cross-team design reviews, RFCs, and incident retrospectives related to deployment safety.
- Review designs, pair on complex problems, mentor engineers, and elevate technical standards without direct people management.
- Define platform capabilities and make tradeoffs for safety, speed, and scalability.
- Build toward automated, health-mediated deployments at hundreds of thousands of releases per day.
- Help consolidate release orchestration, health mediation, feature flagging, and configuration rollback into a unified platform.
- Determine appropriate applications of AI within deployment infrastructure and operations.
- Collaborate with internal customers to translate workflows into platform capabilities.
- Participate in on-call support outside standard working hours as needed.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Experience owning the architecture of complex, distributed, production-critical systems end to end.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through RFCs, design reviews, architecture, mentorship, or platform APIs and contracts.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, including defining problems and roadmaps.
- Deep experience with production-system safety, observability, and automation, including rollback paths, health signals, and guardrails.
- Experience influencing technical direction across team boundaries without direct authority.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development and the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output in safety-critical systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running or durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience owning a deployment, progressive delivery, or change-management platform at scale.
- Experience leading technical migrations across many independent teams.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Eligible to participate in an equity plan.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming support, mental health support, disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and leave programs.

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