PostgreSQL Systems Engineer – Automation & Reliability

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Medical, dental & vision

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to build and scale PostgreSQL infrastructure across multi-region environments from Austin to support reliability and performance. You will own automation, tooling, and monitoring to keep our database platforms resilient and observable.

Join a prestigious, equity‑driven team with a broad benefits program, including medical, vision, dental, 401(k), and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• Experience building, scaling, and managing large PostgreSQL clusters with HA and DR.
• IaC tooling experience with Terraform, Ansible or Salt.
• Scripting for automation in Python/Bash.
• Experience developing and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring/alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL clusters in production.
• Develop and maintain tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Collaborate with Infra and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Implement observability to monitor database health.
• Optimize database performance, indexing, and query tuning.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Infrastructure as code

Automation scripting

Monitoring & observability

Container orchestration

Performance tuning

Alerting & dashboards

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Python

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Flyway/Liquibase

PgBouncer

HAProxy

Redis

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Engineer to build and scale PostgreSQL infrastructure across multi-region environments from Austin to support reliability and performance. You will own automation, tooling, and monitoring to keep our database platforms resilient and observable.

Join a prestigious, equity‑driven team with a broad benefits program, including medical, vision, dental, 401(k), and flexible time off.