Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Kubernetes platform in a hybrid environment. You will build and operate a scalable control plane and related internal tools, enabling product teams to deploy software efficiently and safely.

The role blends software engineering with DevOps responsibilities, emphasizing reliability, performance, and collaboration across global teams. Experience with Linux container runtimes and Go/TypeScript is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience operating systems on-premise at scale (SRE, systems design or architecture).
• Strong knowledge of container runtimes inside Linux (isolation, storage, networking).
• Proficient with Go, TypeScript, and Bash/shell; able to break down complex problems and drive solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and resilient systems to support growth.
• Collaborate with application teams to align architecture for Kubernetes environments.
• Harden platform against security threats and optimize resource usage.

Skills

SRE experience

Systems design

Architecture

Go

TypeScript

Bash/shell

Tools

Envoy

Contour

Consul

etcd

cdk8s

Cloudprober

Calico

Ceph

Rook

KubeVirt

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Kubernetes platform in a hybrid environment. You will build and operate a scalable control plane and related internal tools, enabling product teams to deploy software efficiently and safely.

The role blends software engineering with DevOps responsibilities, emphasizing reliability, performance, and collaboration across global teams. Experience with Linux container runtimes and Go/TypeScript is highly valued.