Cloudflare
Cloudflare
Cloudflare provides a connectivity cloud that helps organizations secure and connect employees, devices, applications, networks, and data across on-premise environments, public clouds, SaaS platforms, and the internet. Its platform brings together application security, network protection, performance optimization, and visibility tools, helping teams reduce technical complexity while building and delivering software more efficiently. Cloudflare’s work spans cloud and edge delivery, secure networking, and resilient digital infrastructure, making it relevant to professionals working across cybersecurity, networking, cloud platforms, and application performance.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Cloudflare (Hybrid, Sweden)

Partner with strategic customer engineering teams to build production systems and drive adoption of Cloudflare’s Internet security, networking, and developer platform.

Description

  • Act as a dedicated, long-term technical partner within a strategic customer’s engineering organization
  • Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations in customer infrastructure with Cloudflare’s platform
  • Own the account’s technical success across Cloudflare’s portfolio and act as its primary technical contact
  • Join customer engineering practices such as daily standups, design reviews, and real-time incident response
  • Drive adoption of Cloudflare services throughout the customer’s technology stack
  • Identify real-world edge cases and product gaps for Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams
  • Build trusted technical relationships with Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs
  • Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations
  • Shape Cloudflare’s developer platform roadmap through customer feedback

Requirements

  • Bring at least seven years of professional software engineering experience
  • Work effectively with modern languages including TypeScript, Rust, and Go
  • Demonstrate ownership of mission-critical services used by real-world customers
  • Understand on-call rotations, incident response, and five-nines availability
  • Apply broad technical knowledge across frontend performance, backend logic, database optimization, and distributed infrastructure
  • Use AI-augmented development workflows such as Windsurf or OpenCode in daily engineering work
  • Design scalable and resilient architectures from complex business requirements
  • Have deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Understand serverless, networking, and security primitives
  • Communicate effectively in high-stakes technical discussions with VP-level stakeholders and connect engineering trade-offs to business impact
  • Be authorized to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without export-license sponsorship, where applicable
  • Be willing and able to develop deep expertise in Cloudflare areas including Workers, security, networking, and observability

Benefits

  • Participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan
  • Attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub if you progress to the offer stage
  • Access equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations if qualified and living with a disability

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