Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudflare
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 194,000 - 266,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Technical ownership","High agency","Self-starter","Executive presence","Systems thinking"]

Embed with a strategic Cloudflare customer to write production code and deploy solutions using Cloudflare’s platform. Own the account’s technical success across Cloudflare services, integrate into customer engineering rituals, and respond to incidents. Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption and feed real edge cases and product gaps back into Cloudflare’s developer platform roadmap, while maintaining a regular on-site presence for deep collaboration.

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Cloudflare
Cloudflare
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Embed with a strategic Cloudflare customer to write production code and deploy solutions using Cloudflare’s platform. Own the account’s technical success across Cloudflare services, integrate into customer engineering rituals, and respond to incidents. Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption and feed real edge cases and product gaps back into Cloudflare’s developer platform roadmap, while maintaining a regular on-site presence for deep collaboration.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a long-term embedded technical partner within a strategic customer’s engineering organization.
  • •Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations into customer infrastructure using Cloudflare’s platform.
  • •Own the account’s technical success across the Cloudflare portfolio as the primary technical point of contact.
  • •Participate in customer engineering rituals (standups, design reviews) and support real-time incident response.
  • •Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services and surface edge cases and product gaps to Cloudflare engineering teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 194,000 - 266,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade systems.
  • •Experience with modern languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and/or Golang.
  • •Owned mission-critical services with on-call and incident response experience, maintaining high uptime expectations.
  • •Active, ship-first developer currently in the IDE with familiarity with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
  • •Fluency across the stack with strong systems design skills and experience using at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Experience:StartupDeveloper toolsSaaSCloud
Skills:Technical ownershipHigh agencySelf-starterExecutive presenceSystems thinking
Tech Stack:TypeScriptRustGolangCloudflare WorkersWindsurfOpenCodeAWSGCPAzureServerlessNetworkingSecurityObservabilityDistributed infrastructure

Company Brief

Cloudflare
Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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