
Forward Deployed Engineer
Cloudflare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $185,000 - $254,000 per year
Tech Stack
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