Principal Customer Engineer guiding enterprise clients through Cloudflare’s network and security architecture, onboarding, and adoption. Driving technical validation, revenue expansion, and lifecycle customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
Lead technical deep-dive discovery with Account Executives and capture business requirements
Map complex customer infrastructure to fit-for-purpose Cloudflare architectures and bespoke solutions
Define scope, success criteria, and technical evaluation plans for Proofs of Concept and Technical Validations
Deliver tailored technical presentations, architectural diagrams, and demonstrations
Address technical objections, security compliance questions, and edge-case architectural requirements
Provide oversight to technical onboarding and implementation as the primary executive and engineering contact
Design migration and onboarding blueprints for customer environments
Guide customer engineering teams through configuration best practices
Own discovery, demos, onboarding, technical health, risk, and expansion strategy with Account Executives
Monitor customer health scores and telemetry to ensure rapid time-to-value and reduce deployment risk
Carry a variable quota tied to new business acquisition and/or account growth
Identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities based on product usage data
Lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews for C-level executives
Maintain trusted technical relationships throughout onboarding, maturity, renewal, and expansion
Provide guidance on architecture, AI control layers, security posture, and deployment confidence
Use AI agents, LLMs, and internal platforms to automate routine workflows
Design and govern technical resources, SOPs, architectural best practices, and technical guides
Educate internal teams and customers to raise the organization’s technical baseline
Requirements
Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, or Forward Deployed Engineering
Ability to white-board, design, and clearly articulate complex enterprise network and security architectures
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes for engineers and C-level executives
Proven experience in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned environment
Strong understanding of SaaS metrics, business value translation, and enterprise sales cycles
Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills
Demonstrated depth in at least four technical areas
Deep understanding of Internet fundamentals including OSI Model layers 1–7, BGP, GRE, TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP(S), and SSL/TLS
Expertise in Internet security including WAF, Bot Management, Firewalls, Rate Limiting, (M)TLS, Zero Trust, and SASE concepts
Expertise in Internet performance including speed, latency, caching, video streaming, HTTP/2, and TLS 1.3
Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted scripting and log analysis, LLM utilization, and workflow automation
Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Bash, Lua, Go, or similar languages
Experience with RESTful/GraphQL APIs, SDKs, webhooks, developer tooling, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability
Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Role may require travel up to 20–50%
Any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license
Benefits
Variable compensation structure tied directly to successful execution of full-lifecycle commercial targets, including new business acquisition, ongoing adoption milestones, and overall account expansion
Travel opportunities to attend customer meetings, conferences, industry events, and in-person team collaboration
Equal employment opportunity and commitment to diversity and inclusiveness
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
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