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Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to serve as a hands-on technical build partner for a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare developer platform. In this role, you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with customer engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype solutions, review code, and unblock hard technical problems that stand between them and production.
You'll operate as a technical force multiplier across multiple customers in parallel, bringing patterns and lessons learned from your portfolio to each engagement. Rather than embedding full-time with a single account, you'll drive a one-to-many motion, supporting customers across the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform including Workers, storage (KV, R2, D1), Durable Objects, AI services (Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize), security, networking, and observability.
Key responsibilities include: designing scalable, resilient architectures and guiding critical design decisions; hands-on development alongside customer teams to prototype and build reference implementations; code review and best-practice sharing to raise quality, performance, and security; diagnosing and resolving complex technical problems across the stack; writing reference code and technical guidance; participating in customer engineering rituals like design reviews and planning sessions; surfacing real-world product gaps and friction to Cloudflare's Product and Engineering teams; and establishing trusted technical relationships with senior customer engineers and technical leaders.
You'll need 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering production-grade systems. You should have owned mission-critical services with real-world users, understand on-call operations and incident response, and maintain active hands-on development skills. Full-stack architectural depth across frontend, backend, databases, and distributed infrastructure is essential. Experience with AI-native development and modern frameworks is highly valued. This is an ideal role for a builder who thrives on solving hard technical problems and helping customers succeed at scale.
