Senior Frontline Cloud Architect for Strategic Customers

Fdetimes; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks an experienced engineer to act as a hands-on build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers. You will shape architectures on the Cloudflare platform, prototype with customer teams, review code, and unblock hard technical problems to help customers build faster and scale on Cloudflare.

In this senior role, you’ll collaborate with engineering and product teams, contribute reference implementations, and drive adoption of Cloudflare services across complex deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role.
• Languages: TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
• Active practitioner with a ship-first mentality and high velocity with modern frameworks.
• Full-stack fluency across frontend, backend, data/storage and distributed infra.
• Production maturity: owned mission-critical services with real users and incident response.
• AI-native development: integrated AI-augmented workflows into daily development.
• Systems design & strategic thinking: decompose requirements into scalable architectures.
• Cloud ecosystem fluency: deep experience with AWS, GCP or Azure, serverless, networking, and security.
• High agency & navigating ambiguity: self-starter in zero-to-one environments.
• Executive presence: able to discuss trade-offs with VP-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as hands-on build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers, driving engagements from idea to launch.
• Shape scalable architectures on Cloudflare and guide design decisions that matter.
• Hands-on development to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
• Review customer code and share best practices that raise quality, performance, and security.
• Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack.
• Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance for customers.
• Support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform — Workers, storage, AI, security, networking, observability.
• Join Customer Engineering rituals and surface real-world product gaps to shape the roadmap.
• Establish trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and leaders.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services.

Skills

Engineering pedigree

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Ship-first mentality

Full-stack depth

Production readiness

AI-native development

Systems design

Cloud fluency

High agency

Executive presence

Job description

Cloudflare seeks an experienced engineer to act as a hands-on build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers. You will shape architectures on the Cloudflare platform, prototype with customer teams, review code, and unblock hard technical problems to help customers build faster and scale on Cloudflare.

In this senior role, you’ll collaborate with engineering and product teams, contribute reference implementations, and drive adoption of Cloudflare services across complex deployments.