Senior Solutions Architect, APJC (Developer Platform) India Market

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.

Location: Singapore

About Developer GTM

The Developer GTM organization is a highly collaborative startup within Cloudflare dedicated to attracting inspiring and growing the next generation of builders. We are redefining developer acquisition in a world where AI and distributed agents are reshaping the stack. Our mission is to create accessible and exciting pathways for developers to discover Cloudflarewhether through ecosystem partnerships high-impact content or creative field engagement.

We are a diverse team of builders storytellers and connectors united by one goal: to make Cloudflare the most empowering and exciting place for developers to build.

About the Role

As a Senior Solutions Architect for the Developer Platform you will shape and lead the regional technical strategy for our customer and partner engagements across APJC.

In this role you will partner closely with engineering leaders architects developers security teams and executives to define architectures validate technical approaches and confidently transition production workloads onto Cloudflare. Rather than focusing on a single account you will operate across a dynamic portfolio of engagements ensuring broad impact.

A central part of your role involves translating your field experience into reusable organizational knowledge. You will create architectural frameworks provide technical guidance and champion the needs of regional customers directly to our product teams. This is a senior individual-contributor role that beautifully balances hands-on architecture executive collaboration and regional technical leadership. You will report directly to the Director of Developer GTM APJC.

What Youll Do

• Shape Strategy: Guide the technical strategy for Developer Platform customers and partners across the region.
• Design & Translate: Transform business application security and operational requirements into secure scalable and highly maintainable architectures on Cloudflare.
• Collaborate & Advise: Partner with engineering executives and senior stakeholders to advise on application modernization distributed systems AI architecture and platform strategy.
• Facilitate Discovery: Lead architecture discovery sessions technical workshops proofs of concept design reviews and production-readiness discussions in a supportive consultative manner.
• Create Frameworks: Establish reference architectures architectural standards and governance patterns that empower our customers and the broader APJC field organization.
• Stay Hands-On: Build review and troubleshoot representative applications and integrations.
• Champion the Region: Serve as a Developer Platform technical leader through presentations written guidance and internal enablement.
• Mentor & Grow: Support and mentor fellow solutions architects and technical colleagues navigating complex customer engagements.
• Bridge Teams: Build effective continuous feedback loops between customers field teams and product leaders translating regional needs into actionable product and go-to-market recommendations.

What Success Looks Like

By the end of your first year you will have:

• Become a trusted technical advisor and collaborative partner to customers partners and internal leaders.
• Established clear actionable technical strategies and adoption plans for priority engagements.
• Helped customers successfully validate and launch their production workloads on Cloudflare.
• Published reusable reference architectures and field guidance that elevate the entire team.
• Improved the field organizations ability to position architect and deliver Cloudflares developer and AI solutions.
• Cultivated the technical leadership of your colleagues through active mentorship and enablement.
• Provided product teams with consistent evidence-based insights into regional customer requirements and adoption barriers.
• Become recognized as a supportive authoritative Developer Platform leader across APJC.

What Were Looking For

• Meaningful Experience: A strong background in solutions architecture software engineering technical consulting or a related customer-facing technical role. While candidates often bring 10 years of experience we care most about your demonstrated scope impact and ability to deliver results.
• Language Skills: Professional fluency in English and a major language spoken in India with the ability to comfortably lead technical and executive discussions in both languages to support clients in that region. A significant portion of your portfolio will consist of clients based in India.
• Strategic Collaboration: A track record of owning complex technical strategies involving developers infrastructure teams security stakeholders and senior executives.
• Technical Depth: Deep working knowledge of distributed application architecture (compute storage networking security reliability and observability).
• Hands-On Capability: Software-development experience including the ability to build or review production-quality applications and proofs of concept (preferably in JavaScript or TypeScript).
• Ecosystem Knowledge: A strong understanding of modern web technologies serverless/cloud-native architectures modern software-delivery practices and at least one major public cloud platform.
• Influential Leadership: A proven ability to influence without direct authority thoughtfully mentor colleagues and turn individual solutions into shared organizational capabilities.
• Communication: Excellent written presentation and facilitation skills tailored for developer architectural and executive audiences.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 30% primarily within APJC including India (supported by flexible planning).

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills)

• Experience building and operating production applications on Cloudflares Developer Platform.
• Experience designing AI inference agentic retrieval-augmented generation or data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with customers technology partners or developer communities in India.
• A background in public speaking technical writing open-source contribution or community building.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.
• A degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline OR equivalent practical experience.

Important Note: At Cloudflare we know that great candidates come from diverse backgrounds with non-linear paths. You dont need to tick every single box to be right for this role. If you are excited about building a better Internet and ready to make an impact please apply.

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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