# Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Named

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** California
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $244k – $336k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Solutions Engineering Management, Pre-Sales Leadership, Ai/Ml Frameworks, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, Llamaindex, Vector Databases, MLOps, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Architecture, MEDDPICC, Zero Trust
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Lead and scale a distributed team of Solutions Engineers supporting strategic US Named enterprise accounts at Cloudflare. Partner with sales to drive technical pre-sales, PoCs, and revenue for edge security, performance, serverless, and AI use cases. Requires 10+ years tech experience including 5+ years managing pre-sales SE teams, deep AI/ML and cloud architecture expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the US Named Team: Oversee hiring, technical onboarding, continuous enablement, and pre-sales performance of a team of Enterprise Solutions Engineers across the United States.
- Drive strategic revenue goals: Partner with Named Account Sales Executives and leadership to manage complex sales cycles, coordinate technical proof activities (PoCs), and forecast pipeline progression.
- Shadow and coach technical fieldwork: Act as a player-coach to shadow customer engagements, establish technical best practices, and guide the team in translating complex concepts into business value.
- Champion cross-functional alignment: Build relationships with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Support teams to establish escalation pathways and accelerate feature requests for top-tier accounts.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing: Cultivate internal channels to share scalable technical solutions, architectural frameworks, and discoveries across regional SE teams.
- Manage team health and morale: Monitor team capacity, strengths, and career development; maintain an open environment for transparent feedback.
- Driving enterprise adoption: Accelerate sales cycles by helping customers move past "AI hype" into production-ready, high-ROI use cases.
- Technical excellence: Build a team viewed by customers as trusted consultants with deep understanding of AI and Cloudflare positioning.

## Requirements
**Must-Have Skills**
- Proven technical leadership with 5+ years directly managing and scaling a pre-sales Solutions Engineering team, plus 10+ years of related technology industry experience.
- Enterprise pre-sales track record driving technical pre-sales in the US Enterprise or Named Accounts market, aligned with sales methodologies like MEDDPICC.
- Deep architectural expertise in fundamental Internet protocols and cloud architectures, including OSI Model layers 1-7, DNS, BGP, TCP/IP, and SSL/TLS.
- Exceptional communication skills to explain complex AI concepts (e.g., fine-tuning vs. RAG, compute costs) to C-level executives while remaining highly technical with data scientists.
- Oversee design and delivery of high-impact technical validation events (custom demos, hackathons, scoped PoCs).
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade standards for AI ethics, data privacy, governance, and latency/cost optimization.
- Clear understanding of the entire customer lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated operational and analytical skills to influence matrixed organizations, handle critical customer escalations, and manage distributed team resources.
- AI/ML expertise with hands-on experience in frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), LLM orchestration tools (LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, and MLOps pipelines.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and deploying scalable AI workloads.

**Nice-to-Have Skills**
- Familiarity with Zero Trust security architectures, serverless computing (Workers), and post-quantum cryptography.
- Prior experience across software engineering, product management, financial consulting, or enterprise project delivery.
- Subject matter expertise on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), MLOps, and data architecture.

The position requires up to 50% travel.

## Compensation & Benefits
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare’s Sales Compensation Plan.

**For Bay Area based hires:** Estimated annual salary of $244,000 - $336,000 (includes on-target incentive compensation).

Equity: Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

**Benefits** include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, fertility & family forming benefits, mental health support, global travel medical insurance, short/long term disability, life & accident insurance, 401(k), employee stock participation, flexible PTO, parental and other leave programs.

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