Jobs at Cloudflare

Maintain Cloudflare’s global data center and network infrastructure across remote colocation facilities. Responsibilities include coordinating contractors and vendors, configuring network equipment, maintaining operational availability, creating SOPs and documentation, improving processes through automation, supporting infrastructure deployments and migrations, and participating in 24/7 on-call coverage. The role also involves basic program management, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with infrastructure, network engineering, and SRE teams.

Own financial strategy, capital allocation, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for approximately half of Cloudflare’s G&A organization. Partner with CFO, CAO, CIO, and senior leaders; build advanced financial models; automate AI-assisted processes; support month-end close; explain variances; and coordinate annual and long-range planning. The role requires strong corporate finance expertise, executive communication, SaaS knowledge, and the ability to create scalable processes in an ambiguous environment.

Leads global infrastructure operations and security compliance across 750+ data centers. Oversees 24x7 incident response, hardware lifecycle management, decommissioning, ITAD vendors, physical access controls, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance. Manages operations and security/compliance teams, develops managers, maintains service-level accountability, and drives automation across access reviews, evidence collection, incident triage, and operational workflows.

Design, build, and operate Cloudflare’s globally distributed cache and reverse-proxy data plane. Responsibilities include improving Pingora-based asynchronous systems, cache performance and correctness, purge and Tiered Cache services, APIs, observability, reliability, and production operations. The role owns features end to end, including design, implementation, testing, staged rollouts, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

Leads customer-facing technical discovery, architecture, demonstrations, evaluations, proofs of value, and technical close for Cloudflare One solutions. Advises enterprise customers on Zero Trust, SASE, secure connectivity, WAN transformation, AI security, and related technologies. Partners with sales, product, engineering, support, and customers to drive successful evaluations, communicate business value, create reusable technical assets, and provide feedback for product improvement.

Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency distributed data systems across ingestion, storage, and retrieval. Optimize delivery pipelines, scale analytical database clusters (ClickHouse), develop GraphQL and log delivery solutions, monitor performance with observability tooling, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate cross-functionally and with open-source communities to evolve the data platform.

Own the product strategy, priorities, and scope for Cloudflare’s Organizations management plane serving enterprises and partners. Collaborate with engineering, program management, marketing, revenue, and partner teams; engage customers; conduct research; analyze usage data; define roadmaps and specifications; and deliver scalable, user-friendly enterprise capabilities across product verticals.

Design, build, and operate secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management across Cloudflare's global network. Re-architect and strengthen internal PKI and machine/workload identity, support and run services (including on-call), and consult with teams to ensure secure system design and usage.

Build and maintain Cloudflare’s globally distributed Quicksilver key-value store using Go and C. Develop features, improve CPU and memory performance, enhance monitoring and operational tooling, and debug complex, hard-to-reproduce issues across the software stack. Responsibilities include code reviews, testing, deployments, rollbacks, operations, alerting, and on-call support for a system operating across tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of data centers.

Build and expand Cloudflare's global datacenter network: coordinate installations, manage hardware and contractors, implement consistent processes, perform Linux administration, use configuration management and scripting, and collaborate with SRE and Network Engineering to improve operations and automation.

Lead architecture and implementation of Cloudflare Tunnel systems (client and edge services). Design, code, test, monitor, and scale distributed, secure microservices. Mentor peers, drive roadmap, debug production issues, and collaborate with security, SRE, network engineering, and product teams.

Lead the DCIM program for data center operations, manage vendor relationships, and drive continuous improvement for infrastructure performance.

Design, build, and operate the Linux-based edge appliance runtime and distributed control plane. Implement secure networking dataplanes (IPsec, MASQUE, eBPF), reliable fleet control and remote lifecycle management, telemetry and diagnostics, and drive product-focused technical leadership from architecture through rollout and incident response.

The DCIM Administrator manages data center operations by overseeing Nlyte workflows, ensuring accuracy in asset management, and driving continuous improvement in process and data integrity.

Own mid-market territory sales by acquiring new customers, expanding and renewing existing accounts, building partner relationships, developing pipeline, communicating Cloudflare’s value, forecasting revenue, negotiating contracts, and driving adoption. The role requires engaging technical and executive stakeholders across security, networking, development, and infrastructure teams while coordinating with internal cross-functional groups.

Leads complex enterprise sales cycles for Cloudflare, driving new-logo acquisition, account expansion, multi-million-dollar quota attainment, forecasting, and strategic pipeline management. Builds executive relationships, maps customer IT architectures to Cloudflare solutions, leads virtual cross-functional teams, negotiates large contracts, and positions Cloudflare as a digital transformation partner. Coaches colleagues and serves as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers.

Leads technical relationships with strategic partners across pre-sales and post-sales activities. Develops joint go-to-market strategies, enables partner technical champions, supports solution discovery and proof-of-concepts, and drives adoption of Cloudflare One, Zero Trust, and AI solutions. Owns technical account plans, partner service delivery readiness, joint managed-service offerings, architectural health, performance metrics, and product feedback initiatives.

Drive Cloudflare One revenue and adoption as a consultative sales expert. Advise sales leaders on strategy and pipeline generation, present SASE and security solutions to strategic customers, enable account executives, support complex deals, engage partners, provide management business reviews, and communicate market feedback across product, marketing, enablement, and partner teams. The role requires strong cybersecurity and networking expertise, strategic planning, competitive knowledge, presentation skills, and 10–20% travel.

Lead DoD-focused account strategy and sales for Combatant Commands (COCOM/STRATCOM/TRANSCOM). Develop account plans, drive multi-year pipeline, negotiate contracts, navigate federal procurement vehicles, work with system integrators and partners, and position Cloudflare security and cloud networking solutions to meet mission objectives.

Serve as a strategic People Business Partner to R&D leadership, driving organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, change leadership, and AI-driven people insights to align workforce strategy with business goals.