Strategic Forward-Deployed Engineer: Architect & Builder

Cloudflare; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock ownership

Generous vacation policy

Parental leave

Healthcare & life insurance

Commuter program

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Design & Strategic Thinking engineer to act as a hands-on build partner to a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform. You will work with their engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype, review code, and unblock technical problems to production.

The role requires 7+ years of professional software engineering, executive presence with VP-level stakeholders, and deep cloud experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing roles.
• Builders at heart with production-grade systems experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication for VP-level stakeholders.
• Experience with Cloudflare Workers or developer platform is a plus.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical problems across stacks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as hands-on build partner across a portfolio of strategic Cloudflare customers.
• Shape scalable architectures on Cloudflare and guide design decisions.
• Prototype alongside customer teams and review code to unblock production.
• Write reference code and technical guidance for customers.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate Cloudflare service adoption.
• Participate in design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
• Surface product gaps to shape the product roadmap.
• Establish trusted relationships with customer engineers and leaders.

Skills

Customer-facing engineering

Executive presence

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Architectural design

Cloud provider experience

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

Windsurf

OpenCode

AI tooling integration

REST/GraphQL

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Systems Design & Strategic Thinking engineer to act as a hands-on build partner to a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform. You will work with their engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype, review code, and unblock technical problems to production.

The role requires 7+ years of professional software engineering, executive presence with VP-level stakeholders, and deep cloud experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure.