Description
As a Solutions Architect, Cloudflare AI / Developer Platform and a member of the sales team, you will help customers understand the value proposition of the Cloudflare Developer Platform and demonstrate how to effectively build applications with our products.
Every day as a Solution Architect is different. You will utilize both technical and business skills to advise customers and sales teams, support strategic opportunities, architect innovative solutions, and develop proofs of concept / demonstrations.
Your technical knowledge of Cloudflare's products and system design will be vital to designing solutions that meet our customers' needs and expectations. Serving as a trusted technical advisor, Solution Architects guide and enable clients, partners, and teams within Cloudflare on product capabilities, positioning and competitive intelligence.
You will form a tight feedback loop with product, product marketing, and technical pre-sales to refine and evolve our products.
The ideal candidate possesses a consultative mindset, demonstrable success working with customers, and deep, practical knowledge of modern web technologies, cloud architecture, and experience building on a distributed serverless platform.
No matter your background, you have natural curiosity and desire to solve problems, achieve goals, and design the most elegant and efficient solutions to address client needs.
A successful Solution Architect at Cloudflare is able to act as a trusted advisor for our customers, while balancing the technical and business needs of the role – actively building and regularly presenting technical solutions to varied audiences.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the sales organization to drive revenue, new customers and pipeline of AI and Developer Platform solutions.
- Lead technical discovery with customers and jointly architect best practice solutions to meet customer needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, sales, and marketing to drive developer platform revenue and customer adoption.
- Present to strategic customers as an expert of our Developer Platform solutions.
- Align Director and C-Level perceived business and technical value with Cloudflare developer solutions.
- Provide succinct feedback to cross-functional teams to deliver relevant Developer content, use cases, customer stories, and data driven value propositions.
Skill Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience selling or supporting technical sales in the cloud computing industry.
- Deep technical expertise across cloud infrastructure and AI/ML , you have built production systems that combine both as a solutions engineer, entrepreneur, or solution architect.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one major public cloud provider (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Practical knowledge and experience designing systems. You have built and deployed a production web application either professionally or as a hobbyist and are able to clearly articulate the design and explain the considerations / trade-offs.
- Software development experience delivering full-stack applications, preferably using modern JavaScript frameworks, a variety of databases, and Serverless tooling.
- Strong understanding of developer workflows (branching, versioning, CI/CD practices, system integrations).
- Knowledge of key market players/competitors in the cloud computing, AI and storage spaces.
Other desirable skills areas include:
- You’ve built something on Cloudflare Workers.
- AWS Solutions Architect or GCP Cloud Architect certifications
- Providing structured customer feedback to influence product direction.
- Actively stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in cloud computing to inform product strategy and roadmap.
Compensation:
This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.
For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $212,000.00 - $292,000.00
Equity:
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits:
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!
The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare 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
Financial Benefits:
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off:
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo:
Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project:
In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.