or apply directly on Cloudflare's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 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 Senior Systems Reliability Engineer at Cloudflare, you will build and operate the Edge platform, focusing on improving service availability and performance while embracing an automation-first mindset. You will work with a diverse team to enhance the Cloudflare platform, leveraging monitoring and diagnostics tools, and will be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in a global environment. This role requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and may involve being on-call outside of standard hours.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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
- Aptitude for identifying problems, owning them and working with others to solve them
- Linux systems experience
- 3 years experience in an SRE role or a role with similar functions
- Software development skills in some programming language such as Go or Python
- Understanding of distributed software systems and large scale system design tradeoffs
- Intermediate experience of common network protocols like DNS and HTTP
Nice to have
- Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
- Performance analysis and debugging
- Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
- Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Squid or Apache
- SQL databases
Worth weighing
- Role requires flexibility for on-call duties outside standard hours
- Focus on automation and operational excellence may imply a fast-paced environment
- Diverse technical backgrounds are valued, which may indicate a collaborative but potentially varied work culture
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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