Senior Partner Engineer: CF1 & AI Solutions Architect

Cloudflare; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudflare is hiring a Partner Engineer to drive end-to-end technical lifecycle and enablement for strategic partners. You will be the primary technical contact, guiding pre-sales and post-sales activities, validating solutions, and shaping joint GTM with partners to accelerate CF1 and AI adoption.

The role emphasizes building technical champions, delivering architecture sessions, and co-developing managed services with partners across Zero Trust and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical, partner-facing experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or networking.
• Deep knowledge of CF1 or equivalent SASE/SSE architectures, Zero Trust, DNS and app security, plus hands-on AI deployment
• Proven track record building champion programs within partner orgs and driving cloud networking/AI adoption
• Enterprise architecture and project management across multi-cloud/hybrid environments
• Ability to manage the technical lifecycle of deals from pre-sales to post-sale service delivery
• Strong communication skills presenting complex CF1 architectures and AI use cases to leadership
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Pre-Sales Engineering & Champion Building: lead technical alignment with Partners and enable joint GTM.
• Own TAP for strategic partners, mapping business goals to technical milestones.
• Build technical champions in partner orgs to scale Cloudflare expertise.
• Drive PIO via next-gen architectures focused on CF1 and AI adoption.
• Enable partners’ validation, PoC, demos, and pipeline acceleration for CF1/AI.
• Accelerate services delivery and ASD partner journey for CF1 and AI workloads.
• Develop joint services catalogs with partners for CF1 and AI security offerings.
• Track KPIs to improve partner service delivery performance.

Skills

CF1 knowledge

SASE/SSE architectures

AI deployment

Champion programs

Enterprise IT

Pre-sales & post-sales

Strong communication

Education

BSc in CS/Engineering

Tools

LLM orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Job description

Cloudflare is hiring a Partner Engineer to drive end-to-end technical lifecycle and enablement for strategic partners. You will be the primary technical contact, guiding pre-sales and post-sales activities, validating solutions, and shaping joint GTM with partners to accelerate CF1 and AI adoption.

The role emphasizes building technical champions, delivering architecture sessions, and co-developing managed services with partners across Zero Trust and AI workloads.