Senior Customer Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$202,000–$278,000 / yr
Posted
39 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 $240k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $137,888–$187,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $240k versus about $163k 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.

Listed pay typically runs $215,000–$278,000 across 59 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Customer Engineer

Senior Customer Engineer serves as a trusted advisor within the GTM organization, managing technical relationships from initial discovery through long-term adoption and expansion. This quota-carrying role involves identifying customer business problems, building technical partnerships, delivering demonstrations, and conducting proof of concept activities across security, networking, and developer platforms. The successful candidate will create professional content like white papers, provide expert guidance on best practices, and lead technical quarterly business reviews to demonstrate return on investment. Key requirements include expertise in web security, routing, DNS, DDoS mitigation, and cloud infrastructure. Preferred skills include experience with the Cloudflare AI stack, including Workers AI and Vectorize; knowledge of LLM orchestration or RAG architectures; and proficiency in Python or JavaScript for developing custom integration scripts and edge computing functions to solve complex architectural challenges.

What you'll do

  • Map customer initiatives and business problems to specific Cloudflare solutions.
  • Build technical relationships and identify champions within customer accounts.
  • Lead technical discovery, design bespoke architectures, and conduct product demonstrations.
  • Manage proof-of-concept activities for both prospects and existing customers.
  • Create professional content like white papers and blog posts to share expertise with peers.
  • Represent Cloudflare as a thought leader at industry events and community forums.
  • Use AI-augmented workflows to automate administrative tasks and routine technical responses.
  • Drive account expansion by identifying cross-sell opportunities and leading technical quarterly business reviews.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering.
  • 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.
  • Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills to communicate between technical details and C-suite business strategy.
  • Experience building, deploying, or architecting solutions using Cloudflare's developer platform and AI ecosystem.
  • Applied knowledge of prompt engineering, Large Language Model orchestration, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures.
  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages to write custom integration scripts and API connectors.
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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