Senior Customer Engineer, Named Portland, OR

About Us

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Available Location: Portland OR

About the Role

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. As the architectural complexity of enterprise solutions scales we are evolving how we partner with our customers. The Customer Engineer (CE) represents the core driver of our technical go-to-market strategy: a trusted advisor who owns the technical relationship from the initial discovery phase through to long-term adoption and ongoing account expansion.
Sitting within the GTM organization and reporting to the Regional Customer Engineering Leader you will not hand off your customers once an initial agreement is reached. Instead you will operate as a quota-carrying technologist utilizing AI-augmented workflows to eliminate administrative toil so you can focus on high-value architectural design and driving measurable business outcomes across the entire customer journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Validation: Partner closely with Account Executives to lead technical discovery build bespoke architectures and deliver compelling product demonstrations and Proof of Concepts (PoCs) across Cloudflares portfolio (Security Networking and Developer Platforms).
• Customer Adoption & Value Realization: Lead and/or provide oversight to technical onboarding and implementation serving as the primary executive and engineering contact for the customer. You will partner with Account Executives to own discovery demos onboarding technical health risk and expansion strategy. You will proactively monitor dynamic customer health scores and telemetry to ensure rapid time-to-value and resolve integration bottlenecks.
• Commercial Accountability & Expansion: Carry a variable quota tied directly to new business acquisition and/or ongoing account growth. You will be commercially accountable for ensuring deep platform adoption retaining revenue and identifying strategic cross-sell and up-sell opportunities based on product usage data. Lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to translate platform capabilities into return on investment for C-level executives.
• Trusted Advisory: Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the entire customer lifecycle maintaining a continuous deep relationship with key stakeholders from initial onboarding through maturity renewal and expansion.
• AI Orchestration & Workflow Automation: Act as an AI-Augmented engineer. Leverage AI agents and internal platforms to automate routine tasks such as RFP/Security Questionnaire responses sandbox provisioning and basic telemetry monitoring reclaiming your time for strategic customer advisory.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering Customer Engineering Sales Engineering or as a Forward Deployed Engineer (years of experience required will vary based on Associate Senior Staff or Principal leveling).
• Technical Acumen: Broad technical expertise spanning web security networking (routing DNS DDoS mitigation) cloud infrastructure and enterprise architecture.
• Commercial Mindset: Proven track record of operating in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned environment with a strong understanding of SaaS metrics business value translation and enterprise sales cycles.
• Communication: Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills capable of bridging the gap between deep technical implementation details and high-level C-suite business strategy.

Strongly Preferred Qualifications (The Good-to-Haves)

• Cloudflare AI Stack Experience: Hands-on experience building deploying or architecting solutions using Cloudflares developer platform and AI ecosystem specifically Workers AI AI Gateway and Vectorize.
• Applied AI Knowledge: Experience with prompt engineering Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Coding/Scripting: Proficiency in Python JavaScript or similar languages to write custom integration scripts API connectors and edge computing functions.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo : Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project : In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC