Job brief: Data Center Architect

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• Listed on Cloudflare's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-11 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-11.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address Cloudflare's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $165,000 to $205,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Hybrid · Austin, TX
• Posted: 2026-11-11

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The posting asks for 8+ years of experience.

Must have

• Define factory and site acceptance tests across electrical, cooling, and connectivity: cleanliness and leak-test evidence, flow balancing, loaded performance tests, failure-mode t…
• 8+ years in data center mechanical, electrical, or physical-layer infrastructure, critical-facility cooling, or structured cabling, including architecture or technical design lead…
• Bachelor's in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a continuing and permanent basis without company sponsorship. [Confirm wording with recruiting.]
• export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Conditions

• Cloudflare is hiring a Data Center Architect to define and deliver the physical infrastructure behind high-density compute and GPU deployments across our global network.
• Own the physical-infrastructure architecture.
• Design physical power infrastructure, AC and DC, including power conversion, backup generation, energy storage, and distribution, with attention to fault levels, selectivity, and …
• Own the physical-layer architecture.

Main duties

• Architecture and reference designs
• Own the physical-infrastructure architecture. Build reference designs for power, liquid cooling, and connectivity for AI and high-density compute, including …
• Translate hardware and capacity needs into engineering requirements. Turn heat loads, electrical loads, port counts, network topologies, and growth plans int…
• Qualify sites and facility interfaces. Assess provider power and cooling availability, utility and backup capacity, water supply and return conditions, hydra…
• Electrical power architecture (MV/LV)

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• Across Cloudflare's 71 open listings, 7% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Cloudflare hires

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