Systems Engineer - Database Platform
Join Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer to build and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in a collaborative environment.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 19 hours ago
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Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Systems Engineer for the Database Platform at Cloudflare, the individual will focus on building, deploying, and managing PostgreSQL database clusters while ensuring high availability and reliability. Key skills include experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, scripting for automation, and performance optimization techniques. This position is well-suited for candidates with a strong background in database management and a passion for automation and reliability, particularly those who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Cloudflare's careers page October 28, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 56% of 57 comparable mid backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $146,000 across 28 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 43.3% of 254 comparable mid backend roles in United States; bash appears in 0.4% of 254 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Systems Engineer - Database Platform role remote?
- It's hybrid — Cloudflare expects some on-site time in Hybrid.
- What's the salary range?
- Cloudflare lists $150,000–$196,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Cloudflare is hiring for this position in Hybrid.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Ansible, Docker, Grafana, Kibana, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cloudflare targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Systems Engineer - Database Platform role at Cloudflare.
From the original posting
About Us
Available Locations: Austin, New York, San Francisco
About the Team
We manage an internal, multi-region PostgreSQL platform that enables engineers to rapidly build, deploy, and operate services. Our mission is to provide a highly available, stable, and self-service platform with clear operational visibility. As a Systems Engineer, you will collaborate with database engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams to evolve our database architecture and automation. You will be instrumental in scaling our PostgreSQL infrastructure and enhancing database reliability. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, reliability, and database tooling, let's connect!
Role Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.
- Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
- Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
- Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)
Must-Have Skills
- Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing high availability failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .
- Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
- Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience developing software in Go, Ruby or C/C++
- Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
- Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
- Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $157,000 - $196,000
- For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $187,000
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
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
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