← All roles

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudflare· Developer Relations
Apply on company site
Hybrid (Austin, TX)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior FDE at Cloudflare who partners with a portfolio of strategic customers to design, prototype, and deliver on Cloudflare’s platform, guiding architectures, reviewing code, and removing blockers to enable rapid production deployments. Hybrid role based in Austin, TX with a focus on multi-account engagement and customer-facing technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving each engagement forward from idea to launch.
  • Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customers on the design decisions that matter — before they become bottlenecks.
  • Hands-on development alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations that demonstrate the right way to solve a problem on Cloudflare.
  • Review customer code and share best practices that raise quality, performance, and security.
  • Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack, removing blockers between customers and a successful launch.
  • Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance that customers can learn from, build on, and reuse.
  • Support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform when engaged — from Workers, storage (KV, R2, D1), and Durable Objects to AI (Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize), security, networking, and observability.
  • Join Customer Engineering rituals — design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
  • Surface real-world edge cases, friction, and product gaps to Cloudflare Product and Engineering teams to shape the product roadmap.
  • Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders (Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs).
  • Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services across each customer's tech stack.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role (forward deployed, solutions or sales engineering, professional services, or developer relations).
  • Experience with modern languages like TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
  • Active practitioner with a ship-first mentality and high velocity.
  • Full-stack architectural depth across frontend, backend, data/storage, and distributed infrastructure.
  • Production maturity with ownership of mission-critical services and incident response experience.
  • AI-native development experience integrating AI-augmented workflows into daily development.
  • Systems design and strategic thinking to decompose complex requirements into scalable architectures.
  • Cloud ecosystem fluency with deep experience in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • High agency and comfort navigating ambiguity; ability to own end-to-end solutions.
  • Executive presence with ability to discuss technical and strategic trade-offs with VP-level stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Customer-facing engineeringTypeScriptRustGoCloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Benefits

  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cloudflare

Connect, protect, and build everywhere | Cloudflare

Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.

NetworkingSecurityPerformanceDeveloper PlatformAI
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Cloudflare