Hardware Systems Engineer
In-Office · Remote India · 3-5 years experience · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Location
- In-Office · Remote India
About Cloudflare
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll fit right in.
- Available Locations: Bengaluru
About the role
- The Hardware Systems Engineer will work with Hardware Engineering, Product, and Sourcing teams to troubleshoot and maintain Cloudflare’s global fleet of storage and compute servers. This role involves validating firmware updates, assessing performance, and developing automation tools to manage hardware at scale.
Responsibilities
- Work with software teams to validate bug fixes and assess performance of new firmware revisions
- Validate and deploy firmware updates to the fleet, monitoring the progress of the rollout for compliance and reliability
- Work with server and component vendors to obtain, debug, and maintain the latest updates
- Work with Site Reliability Engineering teams to triage hardware problem reports
- Support Data Centre Engineering teams in resolving hardware issues
- Develop and maintain automation tools to update firmware on servers and components
- Communicate results and updates through blog posts, internal talks, and tickets
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
- Knowledge of bash and python and basic Linux task automation
- Knowledge of x86 server hardware including motherboards, CPUs, memory, storage and firmware updates
- Knowledge of configuration management principles
- Knowledge of Redfish, IPMI and server remote management protocols
- Knowledge of running production mission critical systems
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of other platforms such as arm
- Familiarity with server hardware architecture
- Knowledge of debugging server hardware faults
- Experience of managing large fleets comprising of thousands of servers
- Experience of observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with software development tools and processes such as git, Bitbucket, TeamCity and Jira
Workplace
- In-Office; Remote India
Skills
- Bash
- Python
- Linux
- X86
- Redfish
- IPMI
- Salt
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Git
- Bitbucket
- TeamCity
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- Jira
