Senior Forward-Deployed Infra Engineer (Customer-Embedded)

Cloudflare; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Parental & Leave Programs

Commuter Spending Accounts

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will work embedded with a strategic customer to ensure scalable, reliable compute capacity and alignment with Cloudflare standards.

You will collaborate with data center, hardware, and software teams to validate capacity, drive onboarding, and deliver resilient, instrumented infrastructure at scale. Strong engineering, collaboration, and customer-facing skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Infrastructure & SRE background with production engineering experience.
• Experience running and scaling large-scale production systems.
• Ability to onboarding and manage capacity across fleets.

Responsibilities

• Lead onboarding new compute capacity with planning, provisioning, validation, production handover.
• Validate hardware against specs and define acceptance criteria.
• Establish monitoring, runbooks, and observability for production systems.
• Coordinate cross-team delivery with multiple Cloudflare groups and the customer.
• Guide incident response and blameless post-incident analysis.

Skills

Infrastructure & SRE

Capacity Operations

Hardware Fluency

Linux & Networking

Automation & Dev

Production Ownership

Observability

Containers & Kubernetes

AI Augmented

Program Coordination

Problem Solving

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Rust

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will work embedded with a strategic customer to ensure scalable, reliable compute capacity and alignment with Cloudflare standards.

You will collaborate with data center, hardware, and software teams to validate capacity, drive onboarding, and deliver resilient, instrumented infrastructure at scale. Strong engineering, collaboration, and customer-facing skills are essential.