Senior Cloudflare One Solutions Engineer — Zero Trust & WAN

Webhosting

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 163,000 - 225,000

Full time

48 hours ago

Be an early applicant

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health & Welfare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer specialized in Cloudflare One to partner with account teams and customers, designing and validating integrated solutions across Zero Trust, enterprise WAN, and AI technologies. You will translate customer requirements into architectures, guiding complex opportunities through design, demonstrations and proofs of value.

Success requires strong communication, commercial judgment, and the ability to connect technical capabilities to business

Qualifications

5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Systems Engineering, technical sales, consulting, or enterprise architecture.
Meaningful customer-facing experience designing, demonstrating, evaluating, or implementing Zero Trust solutions.
Practical understanding of Zero Trust and SASE architectures, including identity, endpoint, network, application, data, and SaaS security considerations.
Practical experience with enterprise networking and WAN concepts such as routing, subnetting, VPNs, SD-WAN, hybrid connectivity, cloud networking, or network transformation.
Active professional use of AI tools and demonstrated commitment to learning how AI platforms, AI-enabled threats, data exposure, and governance affect enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted technical advisor, leading discovery and designing Cloudflare One architectures that address customer security, connectivity, and business requirements.
Guide qualified opportunities through solution design, demonstrations, technical evaluations, proofs of value, success-criteria management, and technical close.
Design WAN transformation solutions that connect users, offices, data centers, and cloud environments using Cloudflare WAN and complementary Cloudflare One services.
Build expertise in AI-era opportunities and risks, including employee AI adoption, Shadow AI, sensitive-data exposure, AI application access, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server controls, and agentic AI governance.
Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve research, customer preparation, technical analysis, content creation, demonstrations, automation, and the repeatability of field activities.
Coordinate with Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering to resolve technical issues and maintain customer trust during complex evaluations.
Own presales evaluation outcomes through technical close, then coordinate a clean handoff to the appropriate Customer Success, Professional Services, Support, or implementation teams.