Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

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Hybrid

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Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
Posted
3 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on, consultative build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers utilizing the Cloudflare developer platform. You will work alongside customer engineering teams to shape scalable architectures, prototype solutions, review code, and resolve complex technical blockers across the stack. Your daily responsibilities include building reference implementations, providing technical guidance, and identifying opportunities to accelerate service adoption. To succeed, you must possess a strong engineering pedigree with expertise in TypeScript, Rust, and Go, alongside proficiency in cloud ecosystems like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You will solve high-stakes problems involving Workers, storage, networking, and AI tools while translating complex engineering trade-offs into business impact. This role focuses on helping customers build resilient applications by providing technical leadership and surfacing real-world product insights to internal teams.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $201250 from 49 postings across 23 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Act as a hands-on technical partner to guide strategic customers from initial concept to production launch.
  • Design scalable and resilient architectures on the Cloudflare platform to prevent future technical bottlenecks.
  • Develop prototype code, reference implementations, and technical samples for customer use and reuse.
  • Review customer code to provide guidance on improving performance, security, and overall quality.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical problems across the full stack to unblock customer projects.
  • Provide expert guidance on Cloudflare services including Workers, storage, networking, and AI tools.
  • Translate real-world customer feedback and product gaps into actionable insights for internal engineering teams.
  • Build and maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and high-level executive stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience including time in a customer-facing role.
  • Experience must include hands-on work with external engineering teams in roles like forward deployed, solutions, or sales engineering.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and Go is required.
  • Must possess full-stack architectural depth across frontend, backend, data/storage, and distributed infrastructure.
  • Experience managing mission-critical services with a focus on production rigor and high availability is required.
  • Ability to integrate AI-augmented workflows into daily development cycles for prototyping and delivery is required.
  • Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including serverless and networking primitives is required.
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws is required.

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