Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Cloudflare, you will work as a hands-on, consultative build partner to a portfolio of Cloudflare's most strategic customers , companies building complex, ambitious applications on our developer platform.

Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving each engagement forward from idea to launch.
• Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customers on the design decisions that matter , before they become bottlenecks.
• Hands-on development alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations that demonstrate the right way to solve a problem on Cloudflare.
• Review customer code and share the best practices that raise the quality, performance, and security of what they build.
• Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack, removing the blockers between customers and a successful launch.
• Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance that customers can learn from, build on, and reuse.
• Support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform when engaged , from Workers, storage (KV, R2, D1), and Durable Objects to AI (Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize), security, networking, and observability.
• Join Customer Engineering rituals , design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
• Surface real-world edge cases, friction, and product gaps directly to Cloudflare's Product and Engineering teams to shape the product roadmap.
• Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders (Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs).
• Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services, unlocking new capabilities across each customer's tech stack.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Proven Engineering Pedigree: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role.
• Languages: Experienced with modern languages like TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
• Active Practitioner: Maintain a high velocity, staying current with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
• Full-Stack Architectural Depth: Broad technical fluency across the entire stack.
• Production Maturity: Owned mission-critical services with real-world users.
• AI-Native Development: Integrated AI-augmented workflows into daily development cycle.
• Systems Design & Strategic Thinking: Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures.
• Cloud Ecosystem Fluency: Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider.
• High Agency & Navigating Ambiguity: Self-starter who thrives in 'zero-to-one' environments.
• Executive Presence: Comfortable engaging in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders.

Compensation

• Estimated annual salary of $212,000 - $290,000 depending on work location.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & 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