Cloudflare
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform
$185K–$266K
In-Office +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 4, 2026
- Location
- In-Office
Austin, TX, United States
London, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States
Seattle, WA - Visa sponsorship
- Offers may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate software and automation for Cloudflare’s shared storage infrastructure, including globally distributed hardware, databases, and object storage fleets.
What you'll do
- Build automation and operator tools for storage fleet provisioning, upgrades, expansion, and decommissioning.
- Improve fleet reliability, observability, safety controls, and incident response across failure domains.
- Validate storage hardware and use AI tools to accelerate debugging, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and toil reduction.
What they ask for
- Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale production fleets, including lifecycle automation.
- Strong Linux knowledge and troubleshooting experience across compute, storage, and networking.
- Experience operating production distributed systems, including observability, incident response, reliability improvements, and safe change management.
- Ability to write maintainable software in at least one language, such as Go, Rust, or Python.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed databases or object storage and storage fundamentals.
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, storage hardware validation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, observability, capacity modeling, or failure-domain planning.
Pay
$194,000 - $266,000 USD annual base salary (Bay Area); $185,000 - $254,000 USD annual base salary (New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California excluding Bay Area)
Tools
Linux, Go, Rust, Python, Terraform, SaltStack, Prometheus, Grafana
AI focus
Use AI tools in development and operations for debugging, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and toil reduction, verifying outputs before production action.
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