Infrastructure Capacity & AI Planning Lead

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is scaling one of the world's largest global networks.

As an Infrastructure Network & Supply Planner on our Infrastructure Capacity Planning team, you'll build the products, tools, and AI agents that turn growth and demand forecasts into scalable, execution-ready infrastructure expansions, ensuring the right capacity is in the right place, at the right time and cost, in the shortest time possible.

Qualifications

• Experience in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, production/operations planning, supply planning, or a related technical planning role.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience across complex operational systems and managing multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on experience building tools, automation, or internal products
• Fluency with AI tools in daily work, and a genuine appetite to use and create AI/agentic tooling to scale decision-making and eliminate manual toil.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate demand forecasts into infrastructure capacity plans that support business growth, aligning hardware deployments with performance, cost, and timeline targets.
• Ensure infrastructure readiness across space, power, connectivity, and hardware availability, identifying capacity constraints early and coordinating mitigation.
• Build quarterly and weekly deployment plans that are realistic, balanced, and optimized for execution efficiency across operations, logistics, integration partners, and engineering teams.
• Track progress, resolve blockers, and maintain deployment momentum across the global fleet.
• Partner with Procurement and Data Center teams to ensure hardware and resources are available at the right time and locations, and manage inventory to balance availability, cost efficiency, and operational risk.
• Support hardware refresh and asset lifecycle planning, and align infrastructure investments with budget and growth plans alongside Finance.
• Design, build, and ship internal products forecasting models, dashboards, planning systems, and automated workflows using AI/agentic tooling to structure messy data, run scenario analyses, and improve planning accuracy.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to automate repetitive work, introduce new tools and methodologies, and continuously improve how planning and deployment operate at scale.
• Act as a central layer across planning, operations, engineering, logistics, procurement, and finance to keep Cloudflare's global deployments moving smoothly.

Skills

Capacity planning

Infrastructure planning

Production planning

Supply planning

Analytical skills

Automation/tools

AI tools

Communication

Job description

Cloudflare is scaling one of the world's largest global networks.

As an Infrastructure Network & Supply Planner on our Infrastructure Capacity Planning team, you'll build the products, tools, and AI agents that turn growth and demand forecasts into scalable, execution-ready infrastructure expansions, ensuring the right capacity is in the right place, at the right time and cost, in the shortest time possible.