Cloudflare

Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudflare

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $254,000 per year

About the role

  • Serve as the dedicated, long-term technical partner within a strategic customer’s engineering organization
  • Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations directly into customer infrastructure
  • Own the account's technical success across the entire Cloudflare portfolio
  • Participate in customer engineering rituals, including daily standups and design reviews
  • Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services
  • Deep technical competence in building production applications on a modern stack
  • Surface real-world edge cases and product gaps directly to Cloudflare’s teams
  • Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with senior leadership
  • Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • You have owned mission-critical services with real-world users
  • You are currently in the IDE with a 'ship-first' mentality
  • Broad technical fluency across the entire stack—from frontend performance and backend logic to database optimization and distributed infrastructure
  • You have integrated AI-augmented workflows into your daily development cycle
  • Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures
  • Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • You are a self-starter who thrives in "zero-to-one" environments
  • Comfortable engaging in high-stakes technical discussions with VP-level stakeholders
Benefits
  • Medical/Rx Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Spending Accounts
  • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
  • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Global Travel Medical Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringproduction-ready codecloud infrastructurefrontend performancebackend logicdatabase optimizationdistributed infrastructureAI-augmented workflowstechnical architecturecloud services
Soft Skills
technical partnershiptrusted relationshipsself-startercommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitystakeholder engagementleadershipmentorship