Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
Cloudflare is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a hands-on, consultative build partner for a portfolio of its most strategic customers. The role partners directly with customer engineering teams building complex applications on Cloudflare’s developer platform, helping shape architecture, prototype solutions, review code, and resolve technical challenges so customers can reach production and scale. This is a one-to-many engagement model: the engineer supports multiple customers in parallel and shares reusable patterns, reference implementations, and lessons across the portfolio. The position supports the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform, including Workers, storage products such as KV, R2, and D1, Durable Objects, AI products such as Workers AI, AI Gateway, and Vectorize, as well as security, networking, and observability. The engineer also provides product feedback to Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams and builds trusted relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders. Available locations are Austin, Denver, San Francisco, and New York.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including experience in a customer-facing engineering role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions or sales engineering, professional services, or developer relations.
- Hands-on experience working with external engineering teams in a customer-facing role.
- A track record of delivering production-grade systems through hands-on building, not only advising.
- Experience with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
- A ship-first approach, high development velocity, and familiarity with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
- Broad technical fluency across frontend performance, backend logic, data and storage, and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience owning mission-critical services with real users, including production operations, incident response, and highly available system design.
- Experience integrating AI-augmented workflows into daily development, with examples such as Windsurf or OpenCode.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures while balancing strategic and implementation details.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including serverless, networking, and security primitives.
- Self-starting approach and ability to take end-to-end ownership in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments.
- Ability to engage in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders and translate engineering trade-offs into business impact.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- A visible public profile through open-source contributions, technical blogging, or speaking at industry conferences.
Responsibilities
- Act as a hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers, driving engagements from idea to launch.
- Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customer design decisions.
- Develop alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
- Review customer code and share practices that improve quality, performance, and security.
- Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems across the stack to remove blockers to successful launches.
- Write reusable reference code, samples, and technical guidance for customers.
- Support customers across the Cloudflare platform, including Workers, KV, R2, D1, Durable Objects, Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, security, networking, and observability.
- Participate in Customer Engineering design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
- Share real-world edge cases, friction, and product gaps with Cloudflare Product and Engineering teams.
- Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders, including Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services and capabilities across customer technology stacks.
Benefits
- Medical and prescription insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility and family-forming benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global travel medical insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life and accident insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
- Equity plan participation
- Eligibility for incentive compensation under the Sales Compensation Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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