# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with their engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype alongside them, review code, and unblock the hard technical problems that stand between them and production , so they can build faster and scale further on Cloudflare.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Acting 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.

- Shaping scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guiding 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.

- Reviewing customer code and sharing best practices that raise the quality, performance, and security of what they build.

- Diagnosing and resolving hard technical problems across the stack, removing the blockers between customers and a successful launch.

- Writing reference code, samples, and technical guidance that customers can learn from, build on, and reuse.

- Supporting 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.

- Joining Customer Engineering rituals , design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.

- Surfacing real-world edge cases, friction, and product gaps directly to Cloudflare's Product and Engineering teams to shape the product roadmap.

- Establishing and maintaining trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders (Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs).

- Identifying opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services, unlocking new capabilities across each customer's tech stack.

The ideal candidate will have:

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- A proven engineering pedigree with a track record of delivering production-grade systems.

- Experience with production ownership and operational maturity, including on-call rotations and incident response.

- Full-stack architectural depth with broad technical fluency across the entire stack.

- AI-native development experience with integrated AI-augmented workflows.

- Strong systems design and strategic thinking skills.

- Cloud ecosystem fluency with deep experience in at least one major cloud provider.

- High agency and navigating ambiguity with comfort in "zero-to-one" environments.

- Executive presence with the ability to engage in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

- Flexible spending accounts and 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.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- cloud computing
- architecture
- AI-native development
- systems design
- strategic thinking
- cloud ecosystem fluency

### Nice to have
- Cloudflare Workers
- Cloudflare Developer Platform
- open-source contributions
- technical blogging
- speaking engagements at industry conferences

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