Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer acting as a hands-on, consultative build partner to a portfolio of Cloudflare's most strategic customers building on the developer platform.
What you’ll do
- Act as hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers, driving engagements from idea to launch.
- Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide design decisions before they become bottlenecks.
- Develop alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
- Review customer code and share best practices to raise quality, performance, and security.
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Owned mission-critical services with real-world users, including on-call and incident response.
- Active practitioner with a ship-first mentality, current with modern frameworks and deployment patterns.
- Full-stack architectural depth across frontend, backend, database, and distributed infrastructure.
Technologies
Cloudflare Workers · KV · R2 · D1 · Durable Objects · Workers AI · AI Gateway · Vectorize · AWS · GCP · Azure
About Cloudflare
Global edge network providing security (DDoS, WAF, Zero Trust SASE), performance (CDN, DNS), and a developer/AI platform (Workers, R2, Workers AI) for sites and apps.
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Source and classification
Implementation & delivery · Evidence for this classification:
we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Austin, Texas, US About the Role As an FDE, you'll work as a hands-on, consultative build partner to a portfolio of Cloudflare's most strategic customers — companies building complex, ambitious applications on our developer
More from the job description
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who [... source excerpt omitted ...] y, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Austin, Texas, US About the Role As an FDE, you'll work as a hands-on, consultative build partner to a portfolio of Cloudflare's most strategic customers — companies building complex, ambitious applications on our developer platform. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with their engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype alongside them, review code, and unblock the hard technical problems that stand between them and production — so they can build faster and scale further on Cloudflare. This is a one-to-many motion. Rather than embedding [... source excerpt omitted ...] full-time with a single account, you'll work in parallel, bringing patterns, reference implementations, lessons learned from across your portfolio to every customer you work with. Customers come to us building on the developer platform, but when we engage we support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform. You operate as a technical force multiplier — helping customers ship, raising the quality of what they build, and surfacing real-world product insights back to Cloudflare's Product and Engineering teams. What you'll do Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving each engagement forward
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