Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Onsite Cloud Architect

Cloudflare; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) Retirement

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to be embedded with a strategic customer’s engineering team, writing production code and shaping technical architecture on Cloudflare’s platform.

You will serve as a long-term technical partner, own the account’s technical success, and participate in on-site collaboration to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services. Strong emphasis on real production systems and executive-level communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• Ownership of mission-critical services with on-call and incident response.
• Ship-first mindset with current knowledge of modern frameworks and deployment patterns.
• Breadth across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed infra.
• Experience integrating AI-augmented workflows into development cycles.
• Ability to decompose requirements into scalable architectures and communicate trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Stay deeply technical and work on real production systems.
• Influence product direction and build partnerships with engineering teams.
• Design, build, and deploy production-ready code within customer infrastructure.
• Own the account's technical success across Cloudflare portfolio.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Production ownership

Full-stack architecture

AI-native development

Cloud fundamentals

Executive communication

On-site collaboration

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to be embedded with a strategic customer’s engineering team, writing production code and shaping technical architecture on Cloudflare’s platform.

You will serve as a long-term technical partner, own the account’s technical success, and participate in on-site collaboration to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services. Strong emphasis on real production systems and executive-level communication.