Software Engineer – Resiliency, Deploy at Scale

Cloudflare

Software Engineer at Cloudflare building and maintaining deployment automation systems. Ensuring service resiliency and impacting the reliability of Cloudflare’s global network.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeAustin • Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $154,000 - $188,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining complex systems for deployment automation, ensuring service resiliency, and orchestrating progressive deployments. Proficient in both backend and frontend development, with strong planning and execution capabilities in fast-paced environments.

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Software Development ExperienceBackend Systems DevelopmentFrontend Widget DevelopmentDeployment AutomationEnglish Language Proficiency

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentDeployment AutomationRelease WorkflowsComplex Systems EngineeringInternal InstrumentationMethodologies ImplementationPredictable DeliveryService Resiliency

Soft Skills

Verbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationPlanningExecutionAdaptability

Industry Keywords

CloudflareProgressive DeploymentsHealth-Mediated RolloutsGlobally Distributed SystemsRelease Safety

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Building and maintaining the platform that powers safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.
Joining the Deploy@Scale team and shaping the future of deployment automation and release safety.
Ensuring service resiliency by orchestrating progressive deployments, supporting health-mediated rollouts, and automating release workflows at scale.
Making deployments seamless, predictable, and observable for all engineering teams across Cloudflare.
Working on complex, globally distributed systems that underpin every Cloudflare product and impacting the reliability and velocity of Cloudflare’s global network.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 4 years of hands-on software development experience on meaningfully complex systems.
Experience building both backend systems and frontend widgets.
Ability to contribute to planning, development, and execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability.
Experience implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, and methodologies.
Comfortable working on projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles.
Strong verbal and written English language skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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