Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Embed with Partners

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact.

You will be embedded with a strategic customer’s engineering team, write production code, shape architecture, and influence how Cloudflare products are used at scale. You will act as a technical extension of both organizations, helping the customer ship faster while surfacing real-world product insights back to Cloudflare engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in TypeScript, Rust, and Golang.
• Experience owning mission-critical services and incident response.
• Active practitioner with a ship‑first mentality.

Responsibilities

• Stay deeply technical and work on real production systems.
• Design, build, and deploy production‑ready code within customer infrastructure using the Cloudflare platform.
• Own the account's technical success and provide a trusted technical lead for the customer.
• Maintain an on‑site presence to foster deep collaboration with the customer team.

Skills

TypeScript

Rust

Golang

Tools

Cloudflare Platform

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact.

You will be embedded with a strategic customer’s engineering team, write production code, shape architecture, and influence how Cloudflare products are used at scale. You will act as a technical extension of both organizations, helping the customer ship faster while surfacing real-world product insights back to Cloudflare engineering.