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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$230k
versus about
$185k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Cloudflare, Inc
Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.
Cloudflare, Inc currently has
106 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$194,000–$266,000
across 46 roles with salary data.
The Senior Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer joins the infrastructure team to serve as a technical bridge between Cloudflare and a strategic customer. This role involves managing the lifecycle of modern cloud compute capacity, from hardware delivery and provisioning to production handover. You will lead capacity onboarding, perform hardware and spec validation, and ensure operational readiness through monitoring and runbook creation. Key responsibilities include developing automation for fleet management, participating in incident response, and performing capacity forecasting. Required technical skills include proficiency in Linux, networking principles like BGP and TCP/IP, and programming languages such as Go, Python, or Rust. You will also utilize infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible. The role solves the complex problem of scaling reliable, high-performance compute resources within a shared infrastructure environment.