Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform

Available Locations | Austin, US; Seattle, US or London, UK

About the Role

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) builds and launches new products on Cloudflare’s global network. Within ETI, you’ll join the Storage Infrastructure team to build and operate a shared storage platform for the teams behind stateful products such as R2, Workers KV, and Durable Objects.

We manage the underlying storage hardware, distributed databases, and object storage clusters, including fleet lifecycle automation, capacity, hardware validation, failure-domain planning, observability, and production operations. In this role, you will build platform software and automation that makes these fleet operations safe, repeatable, and scalable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation and operator tooling for provisioning, configuring, expanding, upgrading, and decommissioning storage hardware, distributed databases, and object storage clusters.
• Engineer globally distributed storage fleets to tolerate hardware failures, network disruption, capacity pressure, and recovery events across multiple failure domains.
• Develop observability, alerting, and safety controls that help engineers understand fleet health and make auditable production changes.
• Diagnose incidents across Linux, storage, networking, and distributed systems; participate in on-call and implement durable fixes that reduce operational toil.
• Use AI tools throughout development and operations to accelerate debugging, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and toil reduction, while applying sound engineering judgment and verifying outputs before taking production action.
• Validate new storage hardware and characterize its performance during normal operation, failures, rebuilds, and other recovery conditions.
• Partner with R2, Workers KV, Durable Objects, Network, Capacity Planning, Performance Engineering, and Infrastructure Operations to turn service requirements into infrastructure capabilities.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale production fleets, including automation of lifecycle operations.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience troubleshooting across compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production, including observability, incident response, reliability improvements, and safe change management.
• Ability to write maintainable software in at least one programming language, such as Go, Rust, or Python.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering teams and technical stakeholders.

Bonus Points

• Experience operating distributed databases or object storage systems, with knowledge of storage fundamentals such as filesystems, SSD behavior, replication, and rebuild dynamics.
• Experience with bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, or storage hardware validation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, or observability systems such as Terraform, SaltStack, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with capacity modeling, workload placement, failure-domain planning, or cross-datacenter networking.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City, New Jersey, Washington, Washington DC, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 - $254,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• 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

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave