Available Locations
London, Amsterdam, Paris, or Munich
About The Role
Cloudflare’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact. As an FDE, you will be embedded within one of Cloudflare’s most strategic global customers, working side‑by‑side with their engineering teams to build and deploy solutions using Cloudflare’s platform. Unlike traditional solutions architects, you will write production code, shape technical architecture, and directly influence how Cloudflare products are used at massive scale.
Ideal For
- Staying deeply technical
- Working on real production systems
- Influencing product direction
- Building long‑term partnerships with world‑class engineering teams
Responsibilities
- 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 using the Cloudflare platform.
- Own the account’s technical success across the Cloudflare portfolio and serve as the primary technical point of contact.
- Participate in customer engineering rituals, including daily standups, design reviews, and real‑time incident response.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate adoption of Cloudflare services and unlock new capabilities across the customer’s tech stack.
- Maintain deep technical competence in building production applications on a modern stack, including Workers, security, networking, and observability.
- Surface real‑world edge cases and product gaps to Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams to influence the developer platform roadmap.
- Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with senior leadership.
- Maintain a regular on‑site presence at customer locations to foster deep collaboration and cultural alignment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of delivering production‑grade systems.
- Proven ownership of mission‑critical services with real‑world users, including on‑call rotations and incident response.
- Currently building in IDEs with a ship‑first mentality and high velocity using modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
- Full‑stack architectural depth across frontend, backend, database, and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience integrating AI‑augmented workflows into the development cycle.
- Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient architectures.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Self‑starter who thrives in zero‑to‑one environments and owns solutions end‑to‑end.
- Executive presence for engaging with VP‑level stakeholders and translating engineering trade‑offs into business impact.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform.
- Previous experience at a fast‑paced startup or in a customer‑facing engineering role within a partner’s codebase.
- A visible public profile, including open‑source contributions, technical blogging, or speaking engagements at industry conferences.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please let us know.
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