Solutions Engineer with Ecosystem focus, Benelux

Cloudflare • San Francisco, CA

11h

About The Position

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solutions Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. Solutions Engineers work closely with our customers and partners to educate, empower, and ensure their success delivering Cloudflare security, reliability and performance solutions.

This is a Solutions Engineer role with a focus on the broader technology ecosystem: the resellers, system integrators, and technology allies who carry Cloudflare solutions to market across Benelux. You will be the primary technical voice in these relationships — building champions, enabling technical teams, and working alongside our Benelux sales organisation to drive pipeline and close deals. As the technical advocate for the ecosystem inside Cloudflare, you will work closely with teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Support to represent the needs of your ecosystem accounts and ensure they succeed delivering Cloudflare security, reliability, and performance solutions. You have strong experience in large pre-sales partner and account management, and excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, suited for both technical and executive-level engagement. You are comfortable speaking about the Cloudflare vision with all audiences. Ultimately, you are passionate about technology, curious by nature, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty.

Requirements

• Language & Communication: Fluency in Dutch and English (verbal and written)
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences, including C-level stakeholders
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills (whiteboarding, demos, executive briefings)
• PreSales Competencies: Experience managing technical sales cycles end-to-end
• Ability to articulate business value and ROI of technical solutions, not just features
• Experience working within an integrated account team (alongside Account Executives, Customer Success, BDRs, and channel partners)
• Technical Competencies: Networking technologies including TCP/IP, UDP, DNS (authoritative and recursive, DNSSEC), IPv4/IPv6, BGP routing, Autonomous Systems, subnetting
• Tunneling and connectivity: GRE, IPsec, MPLS, SDWAN
• Cloud networking concepts: VPCs, peering, interconnect
• DDoS attack types (L3/L4/L7) and mitigation strategies
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule configuration and tuning
• VPN concepts and their limitations relative to Zero Trust approaches
• API security: API Gateway, rate limiting, schema validation, abuse prevention
• Bot management concepts and detection techniques
• SASE concepts and Zero Trust Networking architectures (ZTNA, CASB, SWG, DLP, RBI as integrated platform)
• Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs. traditional VPN architecture
• HTTP technologies and reverse proxy architecture: WAF, CDN, caching mechanics
• Detailed understanding of the flow from user to application, including hybrid cloud architectures
• Working knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (architecture patterns, native security tooling, VPC/peering models)
• Familiarity with InfrastructureasCode concepts (e.g. Terraform)
• Cloudflare Workers and the edge compute model (JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Familiarity with related primitives: KV, Object storage, serverless compute
• Competitive & Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with the competitive landscape across Cloudflare's product areas
• Understanding of why customers move from on-premises appliances to cloud-delivered security
• Awareness of relevant industry verticals: Financial Services, eCommerce, Gaming, Media, SaaS, Healthcare
• Soft Skills & Behaviours: Trusted advisor mindset: prioritizing long-term customer success over short-term convenience
• Intellectual curiosity and a habit of continuous self-directed learning
• Strong collaborative instincts: sharing knowledge, writing documentation, contributing to team resources
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to research, test, and synthesize answers independently
• Emotional intelligence and the ability to foster inclusive, constructive working relationships
• Growth mindset and openness to feedback

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain long-term technical relationships with ecosystem organisations across Benelux to increase Cloudflare's reputation and authority within their solution portfolios — through demonstrating value, enablement, and uncovering new areas of potential revenue
• Drive technical solution design conversations and guide ecosystem organisations through use case qualification and collaborative technical wins through demonstrations and proofs-of-concept
• Develop passionate technical champions within the technology ranks of your accounts, helping them drive sales for identified opportunities and build revenue pipeline
• Evangelize and represent Cloudflare through technical thought leadership and expertise
• Be the voice of the ecosystem internally at Cloudflare, engaging with and influencing Product and Engineering teams to meet the needs of your accounts and their customers
• Travel requirement in the Benelux to support engagements, attend conferences and industry events, and collaborate with Cloudflare teammates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed