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Customer Reliability Engineer a new title on company job boards

Engineering · Emerging, unverified · not on Hacker News yet · 7 open roles at 4 companies · median $164k

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A customer reliability engineer works with external clients to maintain system availability and performance.

New: first seen Jun 2026, job boardone weekly read

Why it exists

Written by rule from our own data

First seen in our data in June 2026, in a company job-board posting from Cloudflare. Today 7 open roles use the title at 4 companies, most of them in infrastructure.

  1. PostingThe oldest Customer Reliability Engineer posting we holdCloudflare, Jun 2026 · backs: first sighting
  2. PostingCustomer Reliability EngineerFluidstack, Jul 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title

Where it is posted

Sectors

  • Infrastructure5
  • Data platform1

Cities

  • Hyderabad, India1
  • San Francisco1

Countries and remote

  • United States2
  • India1
  • Canada1
Remote option43%

Posted pay

Median $164k from 2 postings that state a base range (USD a year).

Who is hiring for it

Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago
#CompanyOpen roles
1CloudflareAn American technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a range of internet services, including content delivery network (CDN) services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration.3
2TailscaleA software company based in Toronto, Ontario.2
3AstronomerA data platform company hiring most for Staff Engineer and Solutions Engineer.1
4FluidstackA company hiring most for Security Engineer and Controls Engineer.1

Open roles

Open role$173k to $224k

Customer Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA

FluidstackPosting ↗
Open role$115k to $144k

Customer Reliability Engineer

Remote (United States)

TailscalePosting ↗
Open role

Senior Customer Reliability Engineer

Hybrid

CloudflarePosting ↗
Open role

Customer Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure - Hyderabad, India

Hyderabad

AstronomerPosting ↗
Open role

Customer Reliability Engineer

Hybrid

CloudflarePosting ↗
Open role

Customer Reliability Engineer

Remote (Canada)

TailscalePosting ↗
Open role

Senior Customer Reliability Engineer

Hybrid

CloudflarePosting ↗
Role
Customer Reliability EngineerFluidstackSan Francisco, CA$173k to $224k
Customer Reliability EngineerTailscaleRemote (United States)$115k to $144k
Senior Customer Reliability EngineerCloudflareHybrid
Customer Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure - Hyderabad, IndiaAstronomerHyderabad
Customer Reliability EngineerCloudflareHybrid
Customer Reliability EngineerTailscaleRemote (Canada)
Senior Customer Reliability EngineerCloudflareHybrid

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About this title

A customer reliability engineer works with external clients to maintain system availability and performance.

7 open postings titled "Customer Reliability Engineer" at Cloudflare, Tailscale, Astronomer, fluidstack (job-board scan, 2026-11-09; proposed by the model). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.

Median posted salary $164k from 2 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.