Senior Platform Engineer — Customer Solutions

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced Field Development Engineer (FDE) in Austin to work hands-on with a portfolio of strategic customers, shaping architectures and building reference implementations on our developer platform.

You will collaborate closely with customer engineering teams to design, prototype, review code, and unblock complex technical challenges that enable faster product deployment and scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ownership of mission-critical services with real-world users.
• Ship-first mentality and current daily coding practice.

Responsibilities

• Serve as hands-on build partner across strategic customers.
• Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare platform.
• Prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
• Review customer code and share best practices to raise quality and performance.
• Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack.

Skills

Engineering pedigree

Operational maturity

Ship-first mentality

Full-stack architecture

AI-native development

Systems design

Cloud ecosystem fluency

High agency

Executive presence

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

Windsurf/OpenCode

Cloudflare platform

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking an experienced Field Development Engineer (FDE) in Austin to work hands-on with a portfolio of strategic customers, shaping architectures and building reference implementations on our developer platform.

You will collaborate closely with customer engineering teams to design, prototype, review code, and unblock complex technical challenges that enable faster product deployment and scale.