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About the Role
As an FDE, you will act as a hands-on, consultative build partner for Cloudflare's strategic customers, working closely with their engineering teams to shape architecture, prototype solutions, review code, and resolve complex technical challenges. This role involves a one-to-many approach, supporting a portfolio of customers and leveraging insights across engagements to help them build faster and scale further on Cloudflare.
Responsibilities
- Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving each engagement forward from idea to launch.
- Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customers on the design decisions that matter.
- Hands-on development alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations.
- Review customer code and share best practices to enhance quality, performance, and security.
- Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack, removing blockers for customers.
- Write reference code, samples, and technical guidance for customer learning and reuse.
- Support the full breadth of the Cloudflare platform, including Workers, storage, AI services, security, networking, and observability.
- Join Customer Engineering rituals such as design reviews, planning sessions, and technical working sessions.
- Surface real-world edge cases, friction, and product gaps to Cloudflare's Product and Engineering teams to influence the product roadmap.
- Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with customer engineers and technical leaders.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services and unlock new capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role (e.g., forward deployed, solutions or sales engineering, professional services, or developer relations).
- Proven track record of delivering production-grade systems.
- Experience with modern languages like TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
- A "ship-first" mentality and high velocity, staying current with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns.
- Broad technical fluency across the entire stack, from frontend performance and backend logic to data/storage and distributed infrastructure.
- Experience owning mission-critical services with real-world users, understanding production rigor, incident response, and architectural discipline for highly available systems.
- Experience integrating AI-augmented workflows into the 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), including understanding of serverless, networking, and security primitives.
- Self-starter who thrives in "zero-to-one" environments and owns solutions end-to-end.
- Comfortable engaging in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders.
- Ability to translate complex engineering trade-offs into business impact.
Skills
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Go
- Cloudflare Workers
- Cloudflare Developer Platform
- Serverless
- Networking
- Security
- AI-augmented workflows
- Distributed infrastructure
- Frontend performance
- Backend logic
- Data/storage
- Systems design
- Technical architecture
Location
- UK, London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years
About the Company
- Cloudflare is on a mission to help build a better Internet by protecting and accelerating millions of websites and Internet properties.
- The company runs one of the world's largest networks, leveraging an intelligent global network that gets smarter with every request.
- Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- The company culture values builders who identify and solve problems using the latest tools, with an emphasis on iteration, leveraging AI, and sharing knowledge.
- Cloudflare is committed to protecting the free and open Internet through initiatives like Project Galileo, the Athenian Project, and the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver.
Equal 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.
- We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
- Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.