Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (DevOps)
Core
Embed with strategic customers to deliver, validate, and manage large-scale cloud compute capacity, bridging Cloudflare's infrastructure teams with customer engineering organizations.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps/SRE)
Builds
Production-ready compute capacity, validation workflows, and automation tooling for customer workloads.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, data center operations, hardware lifecycle management
Required skills
Infrastructure engineering, SRE, capacity provisioning, server hardware validation, Linux systems, networking (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS), automation (Go, Python, Rust), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), observability (Prometheus, Grafana), Kubernetes
Preferred skills
GPU/specialized accelerator experience, hyperscaler background, customer-embedded technical roles, technical writing, open-source contributions
Technologies
Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, BMC/IPMI/Redfish
Responsibilities
Lead capacity onboarding and delivery for customers; validate hardware and system specifications; establish operational standards and monitoring; coordinate cross-team alignment with customer engineering; manage incident response and reliability; develop automation for fleet management; forecast capacity needs; cultivate strategic technical relationships.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
