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Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Storage Platform

Cloudflare · In-Office

Posted about 3 months ago · $185,000 - $254,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
82 days
Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
high
342 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
2026-10-24

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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Storage Platform team at Cloudflare, you will design and build automation tools for managing storage hardware and distributed databases. Your responsibilities include ensuring the reliability of globally distributed storage systems, developing observability tools, diagnosing incidents, and collaborating with various teams to enhance infrastructure capabilities. The role emphasizes using AI tools to improve operational efficiency and requires a strong foundation in Linux and distributed systems.

Our read on this posting3.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
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 designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale production fleets, including automation of lifecycle operations.
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience troubleshooting across compute, storage, and networking layers.
  • Experience operating distributed systems in production, including observability, incident response, reliability improvements, 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, with experience collaborating across engineering teams and technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Experience operating distributed databases or object storage systems, with knowledge of storage fundamentals such as filesystems, SSD behavior, replication, and rebuild dynamics.
  • Experience with bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, or storage hardware validation.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, or observability systems such as Terraform, SaltStack, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Experience with capacity modeling, workload placement, failure-domain planning, or cross-datacenter networking.

What you get

  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options, as the role is in-office.
  • Compensation varies significantly based on location, which may affect salary expectations.
  • The role requires participation in on-call duties, which may impact work-life balance.

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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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