Senior Customer Engineer, Commercial

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$212,000–$292,000 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $252k
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $143,862–$196,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $252k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

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About Cloudflare, Inc

Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

Cloudflare, Inc currently has 190 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Customer Engineer, Commercial

As the Senior Customer Engineer, Commercial, you will join the GTM organization as a quota-carrying technologist and trusted advisor. You will own the technical relationship from initial discovery through long-term adoption, focusing on architectural design and driving measurable business outcomes for enterprise customers. Your daily responsibilities include leading technical validation, building bespoke architectures, delivering product demonstrations, and conducting Proof of Concepts across security, networking, and developer platforms. You will also manage technical onboarding, monitor customer health telemetry, and identify expansion opportunities. The role requires expertise in web security, routing, DNS, DDoS mitigation, and cloud infrastructure. Preferred skills include experience with the Cloudflare AI stack, prompt engineering, LLM orchestration, and proficiency in Python or JavaScript to develop custom integration scripts and edge computing functions while utilizing AI-augmented workflows to automate routine tasks.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical discovery and build bespoke architectures for Cloudflare’s security, networking, and developer platforms.
  • Deliver product demonstrations and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) to potential customers.
  • Manage the full customer lifecycle from initial onboarding through implementation and long-term adoption.
  • Monitor customer health scores and telemetry to resolve integration bottlenecks and ensure rapid time-to-value.
  • Drive revenue growth by identifying cross-sell and up-sell opportunities based on product usage data.
  • Conduct technical Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to communicate ROI to C-level executives.
  • Utilize AI agents and internal platforms to automate routine tasks like RFP responses and sandbox provisioning.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineer.
  • Broad technical expertise in web security, networking (routing, DNS, DDoS mitigation), cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
  • Proven track record of operating in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned environment with an understanding of SaaS metrics and enterprise sales cycles.
  • Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills to communicate between technical details and C-suite business strategy.
  • Hands-on experience building, deploying, or architecting solutions using Cloudflare's developer platform and AI ecosystem (preferred).
  • Experience with prompt engineering, Large Language Model orchestration, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures (preferred).
  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages to write custom integration scripts and API connectors (preferred).
  • Export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

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