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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- low 0 stale, 12 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 494 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Cloudflare's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Cloudflare.
About this role
As a Systems Engineer focused on the Database Platform at Cloudflare, you will be responsible for building, deploying, and managing PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments. Your role will involve developing automation and monitoring tools, implementing high availability and disaster recovery solutions, and optimizing database performance while collaborating with various teams to enhance the overall database architecture.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Cloudflare as an employer.
What you need
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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).
What you get
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
Worth weighing
- Compensation varies by location; no specific salary mentioned for locations outside Bay Area and New York.
- Role includes a focus on PostgreSQL, which may limit exposure to other database technologies.
- Candidates may need to attend in-person interviews, which could be a consideration for remote applicants.
Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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