Job brief: Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Cloudflare's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-13 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-13.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address Cloudflare's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $212,000 to $290,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Hybrid · Austin, TX · Denver, CO +2
• Posted: 2026-11-13

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• Proven Engineering Pedigree: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time in a customer-facing engineering role — such as forward deployed, solutions o…
• You understand production rigor, the urgency of incident response, and the architectural discipline required to run highly available systems.
• export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Conditions

• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• 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,…

Main duties

• Act as the hands-on technical build partner across a portfolio of strategic customers building on the Cloudflare platform, driving each engagement forward fr…
• Shape scalable, resilient architectures on Cloudflare and guide customers on the design decisions that matter — before they become bottlenecks.
• Hands-on development alongside customer teams to prototype, configure, and build reference implementations that demonstrate the right way to solve a problem …
• Review customer code and share the best practices that raise the quality, performance, and security of what they build.
• Diagnose and resolve hard technical problems across the stack, removing the blockers between customers and a successful launch.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in New York, NY: $213k a year (378 listings, 33 employers). This listing is 18% higher.
• Across Cloudflare's 66 open listings, 6% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Cloudflare hires

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