# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212,000 - $290,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### 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

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## Skills

### Required
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Go
- Cloudflare Workers
- AI-augmented workflows

### Nice to have
- Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers
- Visible public profile with open-source contributions or technical blogging

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