Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated, long-term technical partner within a strategic customer’s engineering organization, operating as a trusted extension of their team.
• Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations directly into customer infrastructure using the Cloudflare platform.
• Own the account's technical success across the entire Cloudflare portfolio. Serve as the primary technical point of contact, with other Cloudflare technical resources taking direction from your technical strategy for the account.
• Participate in customer engineering rituals, including daily standups, design reviews, and real-time incident response.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services, unlocking new capabilities across the customer’s tech stack.
• Maintain deep technical competence in building production applications on a modern stack, with the ability to go deep on all Cloudflare product areas (Workers, security, networking, observability).
• Surface real-world edge cases and product gaps directly to Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams to influence the developer platform roadmap.
• Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with senior leadership (Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs).
• Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations to foster deep collaboration and cultural alignment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of delivering production-grade systems.
• Owned mission-critical services with real-world users, including on-call rotations, incident response, and maintaining high uptime.
• Currently active in the IDE with a "ship-first" mentality, high velocity, and staying current with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
• Full-stack architectural depth with broad technical fluency across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed infrastructure.
• Integrated AI-augmented workflows (e.g., Windsurf, OpenCode) into daily development.
• Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including serverless, networking, and security primitives.
• High agency, self-starter who thrives in "zero-to-one" environments and owns solutions end-to-end.
• Executive presence for high-stakes discussions with VP-level stakeholders, translating engineering trade-offs into business impact.

Nice-to-Haves

• Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
• Previous experience at a fast-paced startup or in a customer-facing engineering role operating directly within a partner’s codebase.
• Visible public profile including open-source contributions, technical blogging, or speaking at conferences.