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Cloudflare

Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: California.
Location as listed by the employer: “Hybrid; San Francisco, CA”
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About this role

Cloudflare is hiring for a Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Infrastructure & SRE Background: Solid experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE, or production engineering, with a track record of running and scaling large-scale production systems.
  • Capacity & Fleet Operations: Practical experience bringing server capacity online, encompassing provisioning, imaging, configuration management, and fleet-scale lifecycle management.
  • Hardware Fluency: Familiarity with server hardware, firmware, BMC/IPMI/Redfish, and diagnostics. Ability to set validation standards, triage issues remotely, and partner with on-site technicians. Experience with GPUs or…
  • Linux & Networking: Strong understanding of Linux systems and core networking principles (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, load balancing, and data center topologies).
  • Automation & Development: Proficiency in languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, along with experience using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Salt).
  • Production Ownership: Experience supporting mission-critical services, including on-call rotations, incident response, SLO management, and reliability engineering.
  • Observability: Familiarity with monitoring, metrics, and logging frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse) to maintain system health proactively.
  • Containers & Orchestration: Exposure to Kubernetes or similar platforms and workload scheduling on newly provisioned capacity.

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