Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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 operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact by becoming embedded within strategic global customers. You will serve as a technical extension of their teams, writing production code, designing architecture, and managing technical success across the entire Cloudflare portfolio. Your daily work involves participating in customer engineering rituals, such as standups and incident responses, while identifying opportunities to accelerate platform adoption. To succeed, you must possess expertise in TypeScript, Rust, and Golang, alongside proficiency in cloud ecosystems like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You will leverage AI-augmented workflows to solve complex problems and provide feedback to influence the product roadmap. This role focuses on building production-ready solutions for large-scale infrastructure, specifically addressing challenges in networking, security, and observability within a high-stakes technical environment.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $201250 from 49 postings across 21 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Write production-ready code and configurations directly into customer infrastructure using the Cloudflare platform.
  • Serve as a dedicated technical extension of the customer's engineering team to build and deploy solutions.
  • Act as the primary technical point of contact and owner for the account's success across the Cloudflare portfolio.
  • Participate in customer engineering rituals, including daily standups, design reviews, and real-time incident response.
  • Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services across the customer's technology stack.
  • Translate complex technical requirements into scalable architectures while maintaining high standards for uptime and reliability.
  • Report real-world edge cases and product gaps to internal teams to influence the developer platform roadmap.
  • Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations to foster collaboration and alignment.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade systems.
  • Experience with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and Golang.
  • Proven ability to manage mission-critical services including on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Proficiency in full-stack architecture from frontend performance to backend logic and database optimization.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including serverless and networking primitives.
  • Ability to integrate AI-augmented workflows into the daily development cycle.
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws.
  • Experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the Cloudflare Developer Platform (preferred).

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