Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Jobtailor
- Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving engagements from idea to launch
- Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customer design decisions
- Develop alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations
- Review customer code and share best practices for quality, performance, and security
- Diagnose and resolve technical problems across the stack
- Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance
- Support Cloudflare Workers, KV, R2, D1, Durable Objects, Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, security, networking, and observability
- Join design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions
- Surface customer edge cases, friction, and product gaps to Product and Engineering teams
- Maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders
- Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Track record of delivering production-grade systems
- Experience owning mission-critical services with real-world users
- Understanding of on-call rotations, incident response, and architectural rigor for five nines uptime
- Current hands-on development experience and a ship-first mentality
- Broad technical fluency across frontend performance, backend logic, database optimization, and distributed infrastructure
- Experience integrating AI-augmented workflows such as Windsurf or OpenCode into daily development
- Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Understanding of serverless, networking, and security primitives
- Ability to engage in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders
- Ability to translate complex engineering trade-offs into business impact
- Experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform is a bonus
- Fast-paced startup or customer-facing engineering experience is a bonus
- Open-source contributions, technical blogging, or industry conference speaking is a bonus
- Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license may be required
Core Competencies
Demonstrates extensive experience in building scalable and resilient architectures on the Cloudflare platform, with a strong focus on delivering production-grade systems and engaging in high-stakes technical discussions. Proficient in diagnosing technical problems and guiding customer design decisions while maintaining trusted relationships with technical leaders.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- 7+ Years Software Engineering Experience
- Production-Grade Systems Delivery
- Cloudflare Platform Development
- Deep Experience With Major Cloud Providers
- AI-Augmented Workflow Integration
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Software Engineering
- Cloudflare Workers
- Frontend Performance
- Backend Logic
- Database Optimization
- Distributed Infrastructure
- Incident Response
- Architectural Rigor
- Serverless Architecture
- Networking Security
Soft Skills
- Technical Relationship Management
- Strategic Discussion Engagement
- Complex Problem Solving
Industry Keywords
- Technical Build Partner
- Customer Engagement
- Reference Implementations
- Technical Guidance
- Production Systems
- Fast-Paced Startup Experience
Tools & Technologies
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Cloudflare Developer Platform
- Windsurf
- OpenCode
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