Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - AI-Driven Platform

Precision Labs; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring an experienced engineer to serve as a hands-on build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers. You will shape architectures, prototype with customer teams, and bridge engineering and product to drive scalable solutions on the Cloudflare platform.

You will operate in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment, bringing AI-native approaches to craft robust deployments while collaborating with product and engineering leadership to deliver impactful results.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role.
• Languages: TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
• Ship-first mentality with high velocity and current frameworks.
• Full-stack depth across frontend, backend, data/storage, and distributed infra.
• Production maturity with mission-critical services and incident response.
• AI-native development integrated into daily workflows.
• Systems design and strategic thinking for scalable architectures.
• Cloud ecosystem fluency with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• High agency and navigating ambiguity in zero-to-one environments.
• Executive presence for VP-level technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the hands-on build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving engagement from idea to launch.
• Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide design decisions to prevent bottlenecks.
• Hands-on development with customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
• Review customer code and share best practices to improve quality, performance, and security.
• Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack to enable successful launches.
• Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance for customers to learn from.
• Support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform including Workers, storage, AI, security, networking, and observability.
• Join Customer Engineering rituals—design reviews, planning, and technical sessions.
• Surface edge cases and product gaps to shape the product roadmap.
• Establish trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and leaders.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services.

Skills

Engineering pedigree

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Cloud familiarity

Executive presence

Tools

Cloudflare Platform

Job description

Cloudflare is hiring an experienced engineer to serve as a hands-on build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers. You will shape architectures, prototype with customer teams, and bridge engineering and product to drive scalable solutions on the Cloudflare platform.

You will operate in a fast-paced, high-velocity environment, bringing AI-native approaches to craft robust deployments while collaborating with product and engineering leadership to deliver impactful results.