Senior Solutions Engineer - NYC Tri-State

What you'll do as a Senior Solutions Engineer

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sales of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and map customer initiatives and business problems to Cloudflare solutions
• Build relationships and technical champions within customer accounts
• Develop and present customer presentations at every Enterprise Customer’s organization level
• Lead demo and proof-of-concept activities for Cloudflare prospects and customers
• Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare with your peers through the creation of professional content, including white papers, blog posts and other knowledge sharing activities
• Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and Industry focused events with thought leadership and expertise
• Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices

Basic Requirements:

• Previous experience as a Solutions Engineer or other customer facing technical role with CDN, Security, Networking or SaaS
• Solid communication, written and presentation skills
• Ability to work on several projects and activities concurrently
• Highly driven individuals that are curious, team players and work with a sense of urgency
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
• The role requires up to 50% travel to attend meetings with prospects or customers, attend conferences and other industry events, and to collaborate with your Cloudflare teammates

Desirable Skills:

• Fundamental understanding of customer network and/or application architectures
• Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure, AWS, GCP
• Understanding, knowledge or experience of application and/or network security
• Understanding, knowledge or experiences with SaaS application environments
• Understanding, knowledge or experience with VPN and remote access challenges
• Understanding, knowledge or experience with SIEM and log analytics platforms
• Client OS fundamentals and software distribution
• Experience interacting with senior level/executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation
• Routing, subnetting, split tunnels. SD-WAN, local internet breakout
• End user and application security risks - DDoS, malware, phishing, viruses
• Knowledge of competitive market around CDN providers and internet security technologies

Compensation: For New York City, New Jersey and Washington D.C. based hires: Estimated annual salary of $211,000 - $254,000.

Equity: This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.