Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Candidate; United States; Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to build and operate the platform that powers its global services. You’ll work on production Kubernetes clusters, contribute to internal tooling, and collaborate with product teams to deploy software safely and efficiently.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure infrastructure, incident response, and collaboration with teams across regions. Eligible for equity and a broad benefits package in the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience managing production Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience operating systems on-premise at scale in roles such as SRE, systems design or architecture.
• Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment.
• Knowledge of how container runtimes work inside of Linux (isolation, storage, and networking).
• A firm grasp of IP networking including routing and iptables/nftables.
• Ability to work with codebases in Go, TypeScript, and Bash/shell.
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs, build consensus, and drive the effort to solve the problem.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth.
• Work with application teams to understand their needs and challenges, and help them choose the best way to architect their systems to run well in our Kubernetes environment.
• Harden the platform against security threats, noisy neighbours, and accidents.
• Improve the efficiency of our use of resources such as CPU, memory, bandwidth, and storage.
• Help respond to, resolve, and prevent incidents impacting the platform or our users.
• Contribute back to the open source community.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Linux troubleshooting

Go

TypeScript

Bash

IP networking

Container runtimes

On-premise systems

Debugging skills

Kubernetes ops

Tools

Envoy

Contour

Consul

etcd

cdk8s

Calico

Ceph

KubeVirt

ClusterAPI

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to build and operate the platform that powers its global services. You’ll work on production Kubernetes clusters, contribute to internal tooling, and collaborate with product teams to deploy software safely and efficiently.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure infrastructure, incident response, and collaboration with teams across regions. Eligible for equity and a broad benefits package in the United States.