Senior Customer-Facing Cloud Architect (Forward-Deployed)

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a senior software engineer in Austin to serve as a hands-on technical build partner for strategic customers. You will drive engagements from idea to launch, shape scalable architectures on Cloudflare, and guide customer design decisions.

You will prototype alongside customer teams, review code for quality and security, and produce reference implementations and guidance across Workers, KV, R2, D1, and other services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Track record of delivering production-grade systems.
• Experience owning mission-critical services with real-world users.
• Understanding of on-call rotations, incident response, and architectural rigor for five nines uptime.
• Current hands-on development experience and a ship-first mentality.

Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving engagements from idea to launch.
• Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customer design decisions.
• Develop alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
• Review customer code and share best practices for quality, performance, and security.
• Diagnose and resolve technical problems across the stack.
• Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance.
• Support Cloudflare Workers, KV, R2, D1, Durable Objects, Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, security, networking, and observability.
• Join design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
• Surface customer edge cases, friction, and product gaps to Product and Engineering teams.
• Maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services.

Skills

Software Engineering

Cloudflare Platform Development

AWS/GCP/Azure

Distributed Infrastructure

Incident Response

Serverless Architecture

Frontend Performance

Backend Logic

Networking Security

Open-Source / AI Integration

Tools

Cloudflare Developer Platform

Windsurf

OpenCode

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a senior software engineer in Austin to serve as a hands-on technical build partner for strategic customers. You will drive engagements from idea to launch, shape scalable architectures on Cloudflare, and guide customer design decisions.

You will prototype alongside customer teams, review code for quality and security, and produce reference implementations and guidance across Workers, KV, R2, D1, and other services.