Senior Customer Engineer, Named

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About the role

  • Senior Customer Engineer guiding enterprise customers through Cloudflare’s Internet security and performance solutions. Leading technical validation, onboarding, architecture, and account expansion.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical deep-dive discovery with Account Executives and map customer infrastructure to 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 without executing the implementation
  • Design migration and onboarding blueprints and 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, 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
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor through onboarding, maturity, renewal, and expansion
  • Leverage AI agents, LLMs, and internal platforms to automate routine workflows
  • Partner with Enablement to create technical resources, SOPs, architectural guidance, and technical documentation
  • 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 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 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
  • Demonstrated depth in at least four technical areas
  • Deep understanding of Internet fundamentals, including OSI layers 1–7, BGP, GRE, TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP(S), and SSL/TLS
  • Expertise in Internet security concepts including WAF, Bot Management, Firewalls, Rate Limiting, (M)TLS, Zero Trust, and SASE
  • Expertise in Internet performance concepts 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
  • May require authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without export-license sponsorship
  • Ability to travel up to 20–50%

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
  • Competitive base salary (amount not specified)
  • Opportunity to attend customer meetings, conferences, industry events, and in-person team collaboration as part of the role
  • 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

HybridVancouverCanada

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