Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Cloudflare as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll work closely with strategic customers to shape architecture, prototype, review code, and resolve technical challenges. You'll have a significant impact on customer success and product development while enjoying a competitive salary, flexible vacation policy, and comprehensive benefits package.

Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare 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.
• Review customer code and share the best practices that raise the quality, performance, and security of what they build.
• Systems Design & Strategic Thinking: Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures. You can visualize the "big picture" without losing sight of the implementation details

Requirements

• Proven Engineering Pedigree & Customer-Facing Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role — such as forward deployed, solutions or sales engineering, professional services, or developer relations — where you worked hands-on with external engineering teams. You are a builder at heart, with a track record of delivering production-grade systems, not just advising on them
• Executive Presence: Comfortable engaging in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders, with the ability to translate complex engineering trade-offs into business impact
• Languages: You are experienced with modern languages like TypeScript, Rust, and Go
• Active Practitioner: You have a "ship-first" mentality and maintain a high velocity, staying current with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns
• AI-Native Development: You have integrated AI-augmented workflows (e.g., Windsurf, OpenCode) into your daily development cycle to accelerate prototyping and delivery
• Full-Stack Architectural Depth: Broad technical fluency across the entire stack — from frontend performance and backend logic to data/storage and distributed infrastructure
• High Agency & Navigating Ambiguity: You are a self-starter who thrives in "zero-to-one" environments. You don't wait for a ticket; you identify the problem and own the solution end-to-end
• Cloud Ecosystem Fluency: Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including an understanding of serverless, networking, and security primitives
• Production Maturity: You've owned mission-critical services with real-world users. You understand production rigor, the urgency of incident response, and the architectural discipline required to run highly available systems
• A visible public profile, including open-source contributions, technical blogging, or speaking engagements at industry conferences