Senior Customer Engineer, Central Territory

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About the role

  • Customer Engineer guiding enterprise clients through Cloudflare’s Internet security and performance platform adoption. Leading technical validation, onboarding architecture, and account expansion.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the core driver of Cloudflare’s technical go-to-market strategy and the primary architect of the customer journey
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor from pre-sales technical validation through onboarding, deployment architecture, lifecycle expansion, renewal, and maturity
  • Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, capture business requirements, and map customer infrastructure to Cloudflare architectures
  • 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 for technical onboarding and implementation without executing the implementation
  • Design migration and onboarding blueprints and guide customer engineering teams through configuration best practices
  • Monitor customer health scores and telemetry, resolve integration bottlenecks, and reduce deployment risk
  • Carry a variable quota tied to new business acquisition and/or account growth
  • Identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities and lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews
  • Maintain relationships with stakeholders throughout the customer lifecycle and provide architecture, AI control layer, security posture, and deployment guidance
  • Use AI agents, LLMs, and internal platforms to automate RFP responses, security questionnaires, sandbox provisioning, telemetry monitoring, and documentation
  • Partner with Enablement to create technical resources, SOPs, architectural best practices, and technical guides
  • Report to a Customer Engineering Leader

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 articulate complex enterprise network and security architectures
  • Excellent communication skills translating technical concepts into business outcomes for engineers and C-level executives
  • Proven track record 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
  • Depth in at least four technical areas: Internet fundamentals, security, performance, AI proficiency, coding/scripting, or developer platform fluency
  • Deep understanding of OSI Model layers 1–7, BGP, GRE, TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP(S), and SSL/TLS
  • Expertise in 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, and observability
  • Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Ability to travel up to 20–50%
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license may be required

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
  • In-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub may be provided at the offer stage
  • Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

DNSFirewallsGraphQLJavaScriptLuaPythonGo

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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