Jobs / Cloudflare
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform
Cloudflare · San Francisco, CA, United States
San Francisco, CA, United States194,000-266,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Equity plan and benefits
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive export-controlled technology without sponsorship for an export license.
Job summary
Build and operate platform software and automation for a shared storage platform supporting stateful products such as R2, Workers KV, and Durable Objects. The role manages globally distributed storage hardware, databases, and object storage fleets through lifecycle automation, failure-domain planning, observability, hardware validation, and production operations using Linux and languages such as Go, Rust, or Python.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insuranceFlexible spending accountsCommuter spending accountsFertility and family-forming benefitsMental health support and employee assistance programGlobal travel medical insuranceShort- and long-term disability insuranceLife and accident insurance401(k) retirement savings planEmployee stock participation planFlexible paid time offParental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leaveEquity plan
Qualifications
- Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale production fleets.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience troubleshooting compute, storage, and networking.
- Production experience with distributed systems, observability, incident response, reliability improvements, and safe change management.
- Ability to write maintainable software in Go, Rust, Python, or another programming language.
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with distributed databases, object storage, filesystems, SSD behavior, replication, and rebuild dynamics.
- Preferred experience with bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, or storage hardware validation.
- Preferred experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or observability systems.
Responsibilities
- Build automation and operator tools for storage fleet provisioning, configuration, expansion, upgrades, and decommissioning.
- Engineer distributed storage fleets to tolerate hardware failures, network disruption, capacity pressure, and recovery events.
- Develop observability, alerting, and safety controls for fleet health and auditable production changes.
- Diagnose incidents across Linux, storage, networking, and distributed systems; participate in on-call and implement durable fixes.
- Use AI tools to accelerate debugging, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and toil reduction, verifying outputs before production use.
- Validate storage hardware and characterize performance during normal operation, failures, rebuilds, and recovery.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to translate service requirements into infrastructure capabilities.
Skills
CloudflareGoGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonRustSaltStackTerraform
Industry
Internet technologyStorage infrastructure
Relocation
No