Capacity Engineer

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin Texas

About the role

The Demand Planning team sits at the intersection of traffic forecasting infrastructure strategy and operational execution. We predict when where and how many servers to deploy across Cloudflares global edge so that customers traffic stays in-region and they never have to think about infrastructure. This is not a reporting role it is a planning and engineering role that requires you to build the models own the data and translate forecasts into real deployment decisions.

As a Capacity Engineer you will own one or more planning regions end-to-end with light supervision. That means maintaining the models catching problems before they become incidents working directly with hardware sourcing and infrastructure teams and contributing to the data pipelines that feed your planning work. You will be the point of contact for your region not someone who supports a more senior planner but someone who runs the work.

This is a role for someone with 3-5 years of experience who is ready to operate with real ownership and is actively growing toward full autonomy. You will work alongside senior peers who set team-wide standards and you will be expected to contribute to cross-regional consistency not just execute within your own lane. You will also work fluently with AI tooling including OpenCode AI and MAS agent workflows as a normal part of how planning gets done on this team.

Why Cloudflare/ Why This Team

Cloudflares network spans hundreds of cities and carries a meaningful fraction of global internet traffic the planning decisions this team makes have direct consequences at that scale. The Demand Planning team is in an active transition from manual planning toward intelligent automated AI-augmented capacity systems and this role puts you at the center of that shift. You will work on problems that are genuinely hard with teammates who take the craft seriously in a team small enough that your work is visible and your contributions matter from day one.

- Own one or more edge planning regions end-to-end producing deployment recommendations with minimal supervision

- Maintain and continuously improve regional planning models incorporating new traffic patterns hardware generations and infrastructure changes

- Build and maintain data pipelines that feed regional planning using BigQuery Python and Jupyter notebooks to query explore and validate planning data

- Work directly with hardware sourcing DCS and infrastructure teams to translate forecasts into actionable deployment plans

- Proactively identify capacity risks in your region and surface them before they require escalation

- Use OpenCode AI and MAS agent tooling as a standard part of your daily planning workflow

- Contribute to cross-regional consistency efforts alongside peers shared methodology shared standards

- Participate in planning reviews and communicate forecast outputs clearly to non-technical stakeholders

- 3-5 years in an analytical planning or technical infrastructure role

- Working SQL proficiency comfortable querying and joining datasets in BigQuery to answer planning questions

- Python proficiency data analysis scripting and automation of planning workflows; comfortable working in Jupyter notebooks as a day-to-day analysis environment

- Comfort working with large infrastructure datasets and translating them into decisions

- Clear written and verbal communication you can explain a capacity recommendation to a finance partner or a network engineer without losing either of them

- Demonstrated ability to own a workstream end-to-end with light supervision

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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