Data Center Engineer - Onsite Troubleshooter & Automation

Cloudflare, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking Data Center Engineers to join our on-site team across the United States. You will help deploy and maintain new data center sites, ensuring hardware health and production readiness.

You will rack, cable, replace equipment, and troubleshoot with BMC/IPMI, working with partner teams to keep sites running. On-call rotations and incident response are part of the role, with opportunities to apply AI-driven improvements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on hardware troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to rack, cabling and install servers and network gear.
• Strong on-site engineering and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Site builds: receive, inspect hardware, rack/stack, run structured cabling.
• Verify integrator work against build specs; ensure production-ready sites.
• Triage and troubleshoot server hardware using BMC/IPMI, logs, and diagnostics.
• Replace components and whole systems (servers, switches, optics) safely.
• Handle on-call incidents and document actions for root-cause analysis.
• Use AI tools and automation to improve runbooks and workflows.

Skills

Hardware troubleshooting

On-site engineering

Tools

BMC/IPMI

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking Data Center Engineers to join our on-site team across the United States. You will help deploy and maintain new data center sites, ensuring hardware health and production readiness.

You will rack, cable, replace equipment, and troubleshoot with BMC/IPMI, working with partner teams to keep sites running. On-call rotations and incident response are part of the role, with opportunities to apply AI-driven improvements.