Hiring: Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment) Company: Cloudflare Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:55:28 Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, Cloudflare, Configuration Management, DNS, Kubernetes, LLM About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •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 •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. •Expert in at least one modern strongly-typed programming language •Knowledge of API design standards, patterns and best practices Qualifications: •Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action •Operational familiarity with Google’s Prodspec and Annealing systems •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. Compensation: •$230,000 - $288,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!