# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $194k – $266k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Rust, Go, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Platform, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Serverless, Networking, Distributed Systems, Incident Response, Database Optimization, Ai-Augmented Development
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Senior forward deployed engineer embedded with a strategic customer to build and deploy production systems on Cloudflare, shape architecture, and influence product direction. Requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, full-stack depth, cloud expertise, and strong customer-facing communication.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as a dedicated, long-term technical partner embedded within a strategic customer’s engineering organization.
- Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations using the Cloudflare platform.
- Own the account’s technical success across the Cloudflare portfolio and act as the primary technical point of contact.
- Participate in customer engineering rituals, including standups, design reviews, and incident response.
- Accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services across the customer’s technology stack.
- Develop broad and deep expertise across Cloudflare products, including Workers, security, networking, and observability.
- Surface product gaps and real-world edge cases to Cloudflare Product and Engineering teams.
- Build trusted technical relationships with Staff+ engineers, directors, and vice presidents.
- Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record of delivering production-grade systems and owning mission-critical services.
- Experience with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Rust, and Golang.
- Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, and high-availability architecture.
- Broad full-stack architectural fluency spanning frontend performance, backend logic, databases, and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience integrating AI-augmented development workflows into daily engineering work.
- Ability to design scalable, resilient technical architectures from complex business requirements.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider, including serverless, networking, and security primitives.
- Self-directed approach and ability to own solutions end-to-end in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and business impact with VP-level stakeholders.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building with Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- Experience at a fast-paced startup or in a customer-facing engineering role working directly in a partner’s codebase.
- Open-source contributions, technical blogging, or industry conference speaking experience.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Bay Area hires: estimated annual salary of $194,000–$266,000.
- Eligibility to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility and family-forming, mental health, travel medical, disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible paid time off, and leave programs.

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