Senior Platform Engineer - Deploy at Scale (AI‑Driven)

Cloudflare; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity

Job summary

Cloudflare in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Deploy@Scale team. You will provide technical leadership for a platform that enables safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.

This senior IC role requires shaping the multi-quarter roadmap and influencing dozens of engineering teams. You’ll spend time reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, mentoring others, and defining what to build next to keep the system safe, fast, and scalable for the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership beyond your own code: driving RFCs and design reviews that other senior engineers and teams rely on, and being sought out as a technical escalation point.
• Judgment for ambiguity — comfortable defining the problem and the roadmap, not just the solution, in an environment where requirements are not fully specified upfront.
• Deep experience with safety, observability, and automation in production systems: designing rollback paths, health signals, and guardrails that other systems and teams build on top of.
• Experience influencing technical direction across team boundaries — through architecture, mentorship, or platform APIs/contracts — without direct authority.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with AI as a working tool: fluent use of AI-assisted development, critical evaluation of its output, and a point of view on where it should and shouldn't be trusted in a safety-critical system.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, long-running/durable execution, or large-scale distributed systems is a strong plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication — this role requires writing docs and RFCs that persuade and align, not just describe.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for a platform powering deployments across Cloudflare.
• Define architecture decisions and shape the multi-quarter roadmap across multiple work streams.
• Review designs, pair on hard problems, and mentor the team to raise the technical bar.
• Collaborate with internal customers to turn workflows into platform capabilities and define what not to build.
• Operate with significant autonomy to ensure safety, speed, and scalability for years to come.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Technical leadership

Ambiguity judgment

Safety & observability

Cross-team influence

AI-assisted development

Distributed systems

Strong communication

Job description

Cloudflare in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Deploy@Scale team. You will provide technical leadership for a platform that enables safe, reliable, and automated deployments across Cloudflare.

This senior IC role requires shaping the multi-quarter roadmap and influencing dozens of engineering teams. You’ll spend time reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, mentoring others, and defining what to build next to keep the system safe, fast, and scalable for the