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Systems Engineer - Database Platform

Cloudflare· Infrastructure
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Hybrid (Austin, New York, San Francisco)$157k - $196kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Systems Engineer role focused on managing and evolving a multi-region PostgreSQL platform, with emphasis on high availability, automation, observability, and reliability within Cloudflare’s database tooling and infrastructure ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.
  • Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
  • Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
  • Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
  • Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
  • Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.

Qualifications

  • Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing high availability failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt).
  • Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
  • Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
  • Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
  • Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.

Skills

Required:PostgreSQL multi-tenant clusteringInfrastructure as codeScriptingDatabase tooling for automation and monitoringContainerizationObservability/Monitoring

Benefits

  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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