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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.\nAt 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.\nLocation: Austin, TX\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Data Center Design Engineer to design Cloudflare’s pending and future infrastructure deployments for generational improvement in cost, quality, and speed of deployment. In this role, you will lead electrical design and end-to-end execution for new sites, expansions, and infrastructure upgrades supporting compute, storage, and high-density liquid-cooled GPU deployments. We are looking for someone who excels at progressing many projects in parallel, managing dynamic day-to-day priorities with many stakeholders, and serving as Cloudflare's owner's representative to refine data center design best practices in a high-growth environment. Getting stuff done is a must!\nThe Data Center Strategy team is part of Cloudflare’s global Infrastructure (INF) team. The INF team grows and manages Cloudflare’s global data center/PoP footprint, enabling Cloudflare’s tremendous growth with compute, network, and data center infrastructure, utilizing an extensive range of global partner vendors. \nWhat you'll do:\nTranslate data center capacity requirements into actionable white space design and/or rack plans within individual data center contract constraints for power, coolingManage implementation phase of cage projects with data center providersDesign low voltage structured cabling, fiber, cross-connect & conveyance infrastructure as well as any supporting infrastructure on the data center ceiling/floorWork with supply chain team on rack integration plans and location deployment qualification\nWork cross-functionally with Cloudflare data center engineering team and other internal teams (capacity planning, network strategy, security) to verify scope and solution and create repeatable standard installation procedures\nTake ownership of and lead 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reliability and compliance\nOther duties as assigned\nPartner with Hardware Sourcing and SRE/Infrastructure teams to validate PDU specifications, rack integration plans, and power distribution topologies across global PoP footprints\nLead electrical design and end-to-end execution for new sites, expansions, and infrastructure upgrades from site qualification and basis of design through energization, commissioning, and operational handover\nServe as Cloudflare's electrical owner's representative, defining design criteria, scopes, deliverables, responsibility matrices, review gates, and acceptance requirements for data center operators, consulting engineers, contractors, commissioning agents, utilities, and vendors\nDesign and review utility-to-rack infrastructure, including utility service, transformers, switchgear, generators, UPS systems, transfer systems, modular and prefabricated electrical assemblies, busway, feeders, whips, rack PDUs, grounding, and metering\nDefine electrical interfaces and auxiliary-load requirements for direct-to-chip liquid cooling, coolant distribution units (CDUs), pumps, controls, leak detection, facility water systems, and heat-rejection equipment\nDevelop and review basis-of-design documents, single-line diagrams, specifications, equipment schedules, calculations, sequences of operation, and interface control documents\nOversee technical acceptance of FAT, SAT, Level 1-5 staged commissioning, integrated systems testing, failure-mode testing, deficiency closure, and turnover documentation\nDefine EPMS, metering, telemetry, and capacity-tracking requirements for operational power and capacity management\nRequirements\nBachelors or equivalent experience plus 5+ years of experience in data center mechanical and electrical design and operations/deployment/installation, P.E. certification or equivalent a plus\nExperience in HVAC, Chilled Water Systems, Condenser Water Systems, Pump controls, Glycool/Glycols, AHU units (DX, split, RTU, CRAC, etc.), CRAH, Raised Floor Systems, HOT/COLD aisle containment and Building Management Systems\nUnderstanding of basic electrical theory (voltage, current, power), basic circuit design & analysis, and single- and three-phase power systems\nFamiliarity with Data Center M&E infrastructure design concepts, electrical/UPS topologies, cooling methodologies (central plant, room cooling, high density thermal strategies)\nFamiliarity with industry standards for resilient Data Center design and Uptime Institute Tier Classifications\nExcellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills\nExperience working with multiple time zones and multiple cross-functional teams\nExperience working on time sensitive projects with delivery responsibility under pressure\nUnderstanding of network hardware architecture, data center switching/routing infrastructure, and optical line/transceiver power and thermal profiles\nExperience acting as an owner's technical representative, governing external delivery partners, reviewing third-party designs, resolving technical disputes, and driving noncompliance and project risks through documented closure\nExpertise in medium- and low-voltage distribution, transformers, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, transfer systems, busway, grounding, protection, and rack-level power architectures for high-density deployments\nUnderstanding of direct-to-chip liquid cooling and the electrical dependencies of CDUs, pumps, controls, facility water systems, and heat-rejection equipment\nExperience with construction administration, equipment testing, energization planning, staged commissioning, integrated systems testing, deficiency management, and failure-mode testing\nExperience with utility coordination, design-deviation governance, power-quality or incident investigations, and lifecycle management of mission-critical electrical infrastructure\nBonus Points\nDegree in electrical/mechanical engineering or IT a plus\nExperience in large-scale mission 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We’re 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.\nProject Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.\nAthenian 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, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.\n1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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.\nSound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!\nPlease note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.\nThis position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. 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