Principal Software Engineer: Resiliency

Cloudflare

Principal Software Engineer: Resiliency

Reposted 5 Hours Ago

2 Locations

Hybrid

230K-281K Annually

Senior level

Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity

Helping Build a Better Internet

The Role

Responsible for building and managing tools for infrastructure at scale mentoring engineers and working on distributed systems.

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About the department
Cloudflare's Resiliency Engineering Team builds and runs the systems and software that support our solutions that handle trillions of requests per month. Resiliency Engineering ensures all of the new and existing features and functionality that Cloudflare offers can be managed at scale and meet the needs of our massively growing customer base. The Infrastructure Tooling Team within the Resiliency Engineering organization is responsible for defining building and supporting the tools that can be leveraged by the rest of the Infrastructure Engineering team to manage our infrastructure at scale.
What you'll do
At most companies you build applications "in" the Cloud - here at Cloudflare we're building a Cloud; a uniquely performant globally distributed and highly available Cloud. In this role you will work with several teams of passionate and talented engineers that are building the internal Control Plane used by our SREs and Infrastructure Operations teams to manage our internal DCaaS and IaaS platforms. You will be responsible for tools that support the management of a growing globally distributed fleet of servers storage and network gear spread across over a thousand colos worldwide. You will play an active part in shaping the future of the infrastructure that propels Cloudflare's scale and growth.Along the way you will have the opportunity to write code to bring this design to fruition as well as to mentor high-potential engineers on their distributed system journey.
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

Minimum 10 years of experience working with distributed systems.
Experience designing building and managing high volume software applications.
Expert in at least one modern strongly-typed programming language
Experience debugging measuring optimizing and identifying failure modes in a large-scale distributed system.
Excellent collaboration skills
Proven ability to convey ideas effectively through verbal and written communication
Ability to translate business needs into requirements design documents and technical solutions
Knowledge of API design standards patterns and best practices
Proven ability to use data to drive business outcomes
Proven experience in developing architects and lead engineers
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures algorithms and object-oriented or functional design.

Bonus Points

Experience with optimizing and scaling infrastructure provisioning repair and decommissioning processes and automations.
Experience with scaling and simplifying Configuration Management systems managing hundreds of thousands of nodes

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

For New York City Washington Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $230000 - $281000

Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
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 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

Minimum 10 years of experience working with distributed systems
Experience designing building and managing high volume software applications
Expert in at least one modern strongly-typed programming language
Excellent collaboration skills
Proven ability to convey ideas effectively through verbal and written communication

Cloudflare Compensation & Benefits Highlights

Healthcare Strength—Employer-verified medical dental and vision coverage mental-health/EAP support FSAs/HSAs disability and life insurance and pet insurance for U.S. employees are explicitly included. The overall package is presented as comprehensive across core health protections.
Leave & Time Off Breadth—Unlimited/flexible PTO paid holidays and sick time plus three paid volunteer days per year are highlighted. These policies indicate generous time-off flexibility beyond standard accrual models.
Equity Value & Accessibility—Employees commonly receive equity alongside an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a discounted purchase feature. Relocation support and home-office stipends further reinforce access to ownership and distributed-work enablers.

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HQ: San Francisco CA

4400 Employees

Year Founded: 2010

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Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools so any organization can gain the control they need to work develop and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits humanitarian groups and governments across the globe.

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