Senior Forward-Deployed Infra Engineer (Hybrid)

Cloudflare, Inc.; Austin, San Francisco (TX, CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to work embedded with a strategic customer, guiding capacity from delivery to production.

You will partner with Cloudflare's data center and hardware teams to ensure reliable, scalable compute capacity, pass validation, and readiness for production deployments. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership in large-scale infrastructure, collaboration across multiple teams, and on-site customer engagement to shape

Qualifications

• Infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering with large-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead bringing new compute capacity online with planning, provisioning, validation and handover to production.
• Define acceptance criteria and validation workflows for hardware.
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for production systems.
• Coordinate cross-team efforts between infrastructure, hardware, data center, supply chain and customer teams.
• Provide technical direction and account strategy for customer infrastructure.
• Engage in incident response and blameless post-incident improvements.
• Develop automation and tooling for provisioning and fleet management.
• Forecast capacity and identify future constraints with the customer.
• Surface real-world issues to influence product roadmaps.
• Maintain strong executive stakeholder relationships and on-site presence.

Skills

Infrastructure & SRE

Capacity & Fleet Ops

Hardware fluency

Linux & Networking

Automation & Dev

Production ownership

Observability

Containers & Orchestration

AI-augmented workflows

Program coordination

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer to work embedded with a strategic customer, guiding capacity from delivery to production.

You will partner with Cloudflare's data center and hardware teams to ensure reliable, scalable compute capacity, pass validation, and readiness for production deployments. The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership in large-scale infrastructure, collaboration across multiple teams, and on-site customer engagement to shape