Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform

Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Cloudflare’s Storage Infrastructure team within Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI). You’ll build and operate a shared storage platform and platform software/automation for fleet operations.

What you'll do

• Design and build automation and operator tooling for provisioning, configuring, expanding, upgrading, and decommissioning storage hardware and clusters.
• Engineer globally distributed storage fleets to tolerate hardware failures, network disruption, capacity pressure, and recovery events.
• Develop observability, alerting, and safety controls to understand fleet health and enable auditable production changes.
• Diagnose incidents across Linux, storage, networking, and distributed systems and implement durable fixes.
• Use AI tools in development and operations for debugging, triage, root-cause analysis, and reducing toil.
• Validate new storage hardware and characterize performance across normal operation and failure/recovery conditions.

What you'll need

• Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale production fleets, including lifecycle automation.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting across compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production, including observability 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 across engineering teams and technical stakeholders.

Details

• Work location listed as: In-Office.
• Available locations listed as Austin (US), Seattle (US), or London (UK).