Principal Software Engineer: Distributed Systems (Config, Test, & Deployment) is open at Cloudflare (Hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $230K - $288K. Posted on Jul 1, 2026, and still on Cloudflare’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Too many of Cloudflare's most impactful incidents have had unsafe change as a root cause. The Intent Management exists to make safe change the easy button and this is the most senior IC role in that organization, reporting directly to the Senior Director. You will own the technical coherence of a platform that spans globally distributed key-value storage, progressive release and configuration delivery, and the…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Cloudflare’s careers page.
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