Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Production-Scale Solutions

Fdetimes

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Cloudflare’s Senior Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact. You will be embedded within one of Cloudflare’s most strategic global customers, working side-by-side with their engineering teams to build and deploy solutions using Cloudflare’s platform.

As an FDE, you will write production code, shape technical architecture, and directly influence how Cloudflare products are used at massive scale.

Qualifications

7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Languages: TypeScript, Rust, Golang.
Production ownership with real users and on-call rotations.
Currently in the IDE with a ship-first mentality.
Full-stack architectural depth across the stack.
AI-native development with modern tooling exposure.
Cloud provider experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

Embed within a strategic customer’s engineering team to deliver production-grade code.
Write production code and shape technical architecture for scale.
Influence product direction and surface real-world insights to Cloudflare.
Maintain regular on-site presence and foster collaboration with customer teams.
Participate in customer engineering rituals and incident response.
Build long-term partnerships with world-class engineering teams.