Storage Infrastructure Engineer — AI-Powered Global Fleet

Devopsroles; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Equity plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare's Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team is hiring for Storage Infrastructure to build and operate a shared storage platform supporting stateful products like R2, Workers KV, and Durable Objects on Cloudflare's global network.

You will manage storage fleets, hardware validation, capacity planning, and production operations, building platform software and automation for safe, scalable fleet operations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms or large-scale fleets.
• Strong Linux knowledge and troubleshooting across compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production with observability & reliability improvements.
• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Go or Python.
• Clear written and verbal communication across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation and operator tooling for provisioning, configuring, expanding, upgrading, and decommissioning storage hardware, databases, and object storage clusters.
• Engineer globally distributed storage fleets to tolerate failures and recoveries across multiple failure domains.
• Develop observability, alerting, and safety controls for fleet health and auditable production changes.
• Diagnose incidents across Linux, storage, networking, and distributed systems; participate in on-call and implement durable fixes.
• Use AI tools to accelerate debugging, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and toil reduction with sound engineering judgment.

Skills

Automation tooling

Linux

Distributed systems

Go/Python

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

SaltStack

Job description

Cloudflare's Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team is hiring for Storage Infrastructure to build and operate a shared storage platform supporting stateful products like R2, Workers KV, and Durable Objects on Cloudflare's global network.

You will manage storage fleets, hardware validation, capacity planning, and production operations, building platform software and automation for safe, scalable fleet operations.