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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of...
About Us
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks
that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune
500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software,
or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global
network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in
spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s
Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in
the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized"
problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI
to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the
team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving
tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
Locations Available: Austin (US)
About Role
We are looking for experienced and highly motivated engineers to join our DATA Org and help build the future of data at
Cloudflare. Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle - from ingestion and processing to storage and retrieval
their online properties.
Our mission is to empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business. We build and maintain a
suite of high-performance, scalable systems that handle more than a billion events in a second. As an engineer in our
organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data
stack.
Our Data Org is composed of several key teams, and you could contribute to any of the following areas:
(primarily written in Go) responsible for ingesting, processing, and routing massive volumes of data from across Cloudflare's
global network to multi-core destination.
a high-performance, scalable database platform optimised for the immense analytical workloads generated by our products and
services.
includes developing our public GraphQL API, building robust log delivery solutions and integrations with customer destinations,
and contributing to our alerting products, which empower users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the logs
and metrics observed by our data platform.
As a Software Engineer in our Data Organisation depending on the team you join, you will focus on a subset of the following areas:
delivery.
reliability, and user experience.
query performance.
data-driven decisions.
technologies and approaches.
principles.
high-cardinality metrics at scale.
tuning.
high scale.
If you're passionate about building scalable and performant data platforms using cutting-edge technologies and want to work with a
world-class team of engineers, then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone!
This role requires flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you
pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a
description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
● Medical/Rx Insurance
● Dental Insurance
● Vision Insurance
● Flexible Spending Accounts
● Commuter Spending Accounts
● Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
● On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
● Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
● Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
● Life & Accident Insurance
● 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
● Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
● Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
● Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a
soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with
powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by
Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of
protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since
the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric
public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever
released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment
and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview
within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview
process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration
Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology
controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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. Please tell us if you require a
reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the
application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized
equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via
mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Locations Available: Austin (US) About Role We are looking for experienced and highly motivated engineers to join our DATA Org and help build the future of data at Cloudflare. Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle - from ingestion and processing to storage and retrieval - powering the critical logs and analytics that provide our customers with real-time visibility into the health and performance of their online properties. Our mission is to empower customers to leverage their data to drive better outcomes for their business. We build and maintain a suite of high-performance, scalable systems that handle more than a billion events in a second. As an engineer in our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems challenges across different parts of our data stack. Our Data Organisation is strategically composed of several key teams, each focusing on a distinct aspect of our comprehensive data platform: * Data Delivery / Data Pipeline: This team is responsible for the design, development, and operation of our distributed data delivery pipeline. This system is a high-throughput, low-latency powerhouse, primarily written in Go, and is tasked with ingesting, processing, and intelligently routing massive volumes of data originating from across Cloudflare’s vast global network to multiple core destinations. This involves handling diverse data types and ensuring reliable, timely delivery to various downstream systems. * Analytical Database Platform: Engineers on this team contribute to and evolve our core analytical platform, which is powered by ClickHouse. This team is dedicated to building and maintaining a high-performance, scalable database platform meticulously optimised for the immense analytical workloads generated by all of Cloudflare’s products and services. This includes ensuring data integrity, query optimisation, and continuous platform scalability to meet ever-growing demands. * Data Retrieval (Customer-Facing Products): This department is focused on building and continuously improving our customer-facing products, making data not only accessible but also genuinely actionable for our users. This department comprises two main groups: * Analytics and Alerts: Members of this group are at the forefront of developing our public APIs such as the GraphQL Analytics API, providing customers and internal Cloudflare teams with flexible access to their data. They will also work on our alerting platform, empowering users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the critical logs and metrics observed by our robust data platform. This includes designing intuitive alerting mechanisms and ensuring the reliability of notification systems. * Logs and Audit Logs: This specialised team is dedicated to building a robust and easy-to-use logging platform that powers reliable data delivery and seamless integrations with customer destinations. The team’s mission is to make it simple for customers to access, manage, and use their log data — ensuring that critical datasets, including comprehensive audit logs, are delivered securely and efficiently to their preferred storage and analysis platforms. The work spans developing intuitive connectors, ensuring data integrity, optimising delivery pipelines, and upholding strict standards for compliance, performance, and usability. RESPONSIBILITIES This role is focusing on the Analytics and Alerts group. As a Software Engineer you will focus on the following areas: * Develop and enhance our customer-facing APIs focusing on performance, reliability, and an intuitive user experience. * Design, build, and maintain our near real-time alerting platform, from data processing and anomaly detection to reliable notification delivery. * Optimise the performance of complex analytical queries that power our APIs and dashboards, working closely with the database platform team. * Create intuitive and powerful tools that allow customers to explore their data and configure meaningful alerts based on logs and metrics. * Scale our API and alerting infrastructure to support a growing number of internal and external use cases. * Collaborate with front-end engineers and product managers to define API contracts and deliver a seamless data experience for our users. * Ensure the operational health of our APIs and alerting systems by developing comprehensive monitoring, and participating in an on-call rotation (with the flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours as needed). KEY QUALIFICATIONS * 3+ years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and scalable APIs. * Strong programming skills (Go is preferable), with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building performant, customer-facing services. * Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale. * Strong knowledge of SQL, including extensive experience with complex query optimisation. * A solid foundation in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a willingness to debug, troubleshoot, and learn about complex problems at high scale. * Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare. * Experience developing and scaling APIs, particularly GraphQL, is a strong plus. * Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) for real-time processing is a plus. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus. * Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus. If you're passionate about building scalable and performant data platforms using cutting-edge technologies and want to work with a world-class team of engineers, then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone! Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S. Health & Welfare Benefits ● Medical/Rx Insurance ● Dental Insurance ● Vision Insurance ● Flexible Spending Accounts ● Commuter Spending Accounts ● Fertility & Family Forming Benefits ● On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program ● Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits ● Short and Long Term Disability Insurance ● Life & Accident Insurance ● 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan ● Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off ● Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave ● Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. 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. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Locations Available: Austin (US) About Role We are actively seeking experienced and highly motivated Distributed Systems Engineers to join Cloudflare’s dynamic DATA Organisation. This is a pivotal opportunity to contribute to the future of data at Cloudflare, working on systems that are fundamental to our global operations and customer insights. Our organisation is responsible for the entire data lifecycle, encompassing everything from initial ingestion and sophisticated processing to robust storage and efficient retrieval. These systems are the backbone that power critical logs and analytics, providing our customers with real-time, actionable visibility into the health, performance, and security of their online properties. Our overarching mission is to empower customers to leverage their data effectively, enabling them to drive superior outcomes for their businesses. To achieve this, we design, build, and maintain a suite of high-performance, massively scalable distributed systems that are engineered to handle an unprecedented scale – processing well over a billion events per second. As an engineer within our organisation, you will be presented with unique challenges across various critical parts of our intricate data stack. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to solutions that operate at the very edge of internet infrastructure. Our Data Organisation is strategically composed of several key teams, each focusing on a distinct aspect of our comprehensive data platform: * Data Delivery / Data Pipeline: This team is responsible for the design, development, and operation of our distributed data delivery pipeline. This system is a high-throughput, low-latency powerhouse, primarily written in Go, and is tasked with ingesting, processing, and intelligently routing massive volumes of data originating from across Cloudflare’s vast global network to multiple core destinations. This involves handling diverse data types and ensuring reliable, timely delivery to various downstream systems. * Analytical Database Platform: Engineers on this team contribute to and evolve our core analytical platform, which is powered by ClickHouse. This team is dedicated to building and maintaining a high-performance, scalable database platform meticulously optimised for the immense analytical workloads generated by all of Cloudflare’s products and services. This includes ensuring data integrity, query optimisation, and continuous platform scalability to meet ever-growing demands. * Data Retrieval (Customer-Facing Products): This department is focused on building and continuously improving our customer-facing products, making data not only accessible but also genuinely actionable for our users. This department comprises two main groups: * Analytics and Alerts: Members of this group are at the forefront of developing our public APIs such as the GraphQL Analytics API, providing customers and internal Cloudflare teams with flexible access to their data. They will also work on our alerting platform, empowering users to configure and receive near real-time alerts based on the critical logs and metrics observed by our robust data platform. This includes designing intuitive alerting mechanisms and ensuring the reliability of notification systems. * Logs and Audit Logs: This specialised team is dedicated to building a robust and easy-to-use logging platform that powers reliable data delivery and seamless integrations with customer destinations. The team’s mission is to make it simple for customers to access, manage, and use their log data — ensuring that critical datasets, including comprehensive audit logs, are delivered securely and efficiently to their preferred storage and analysis platforms. The work spans developing intuitive connectors, ensuring data integrity, optimising delivery pipelines, and upholding strict standards for compliance, performance, and usability. RESPONSIBILITIES This particular role is focused on the Logs and Audit Logs group. As a Software Engineer you will focus on the following areas: * Design, build, and operate a robust logging platform, ensuring reliable logging, and secure data transfer to a wide array of customer destinations and third-party integrations. * Develop and maintain high-performance data connectors and integrations for our log-shipping products, focusing on usability, scalability and data integrity. * Create and manage systems for handling comprehensive audit logs, ensuring they are delivered securely and adhere to strict compliance and performance standards. * Scale and optimise the data delivery pipeline to handle massive data volumes with low latency, identifying and removing bottlenecks in data processing and routing. * Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to define requirements for a new logging platform and integrations. * Maintain the operational health of our log delivery platform through comprehensive monitoring and participation in an on-call rotation (with flexibility for out-of-hours technical issue resolution). * Collaborate on the architectural evolution of our data egress platform, researching and implementing new technologies to improve efficiency and reliability. KEY QUALIFICATIONS * 3+ years of experience working in software development covering distributed systems and data pipelines. * Strong programming skills (Go is preferable), with a deep understanding of software development best practices for building resilient, high-throughput systems. * Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks, including Prometheus, Grafana, and a strong understanding of handling high-cardinality metrics at scale. * Strong knowledge of SQL, including experience with query optimisation. * A solid foundation in computer science, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and concurrency. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a willingness to debug, troubleshoot, and learn about complex problems at high scale. * Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with other teams across Cloudflare. * Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink) is a strong plus. * Experience with various logging platforms or SIEMs (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic) and storage destinations (e.g., S3, R2, GCS) is a plus. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like SALT or Terraform is a plus. * Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is a plus. If you're passionate about building scalable and performant data platforms using cutting-edge technologies and want to work with a world-class team of engineers, then we want to hear from you! Join us in our mission to help build a better internet for everyone! Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S. Health & Welfare Benefits ● Medical/Rx Insurance ● Dental Insurance ● Vision Insurance ● Flexible Spending Accounts ● Commuter Spending Accounts ● Fertility & Family Forming Benefits ● On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program ● Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits ● Short and Long Term Disability Insurance ● Life & Accident Insurance ● 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan ● Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off ● Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave ● Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. 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. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. AVAILABLE LOCATIONS * Sweden ABOUT THE ROLE Cloudflare’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) operate at the intersection of product engineering and customer impact. As an FDE, you will be embedded within one of Cloudflare’s most strategic global customers, working side-by-side with their engineering teams to build and deploy solutions using Cloudflare’s platform. Unlike traditional Solutions Architects or consultants, you will write production code, shape technical architecture, and directly influence how Cloudflare products are used at massive scale. You will operate as a technical extension of both organizations - helping the customer ship faster while surfacing real-world product insights back to Cloudflare engineering. RESPONSIBILITIES This role is ideal for engineers who want to: * Stay deeply technical * Work on real production systems * Influence product direction * Build long-term partnerships with world-class engineering teams * Deep Technical Embedding: Serve as the dedicated, long-term technical partner within a strategic customer’s engineering organization, operating as a trusted extension of their team. * Production-Level Engineering: Design, build, and deploy production-ready code and configurations directly into customer infrastructure using the Cloudflare platform. * Technical Accountability: Own the account's technical success across the entire Cloudflare portfolio. Serve as the primary technical point of contact, with other Cloudflare technical resources taking direction from your technical strategy for the account. * Operational Integration: Participate in customer engineering rituals, including daily standups, design reviews, and real-time incident response. * Platform Advocacy & Adoption: Identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption of Cloudflare services, unlocking new capabilities across the customer’s tech stack. * Platform Breadth & Depth: Deep technical competence in building production applications on a modern stack, combined with the willingness and ability to go deep on all Cloudflare product areas. From Workers to security, networking, and observability. * Feedback Loop & Product Influence: Surface real-world edge cases and product gaps directly to Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams to influence the developer platform roadmap. * Strategic Relationship Management: Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships with senior leadership (Staff+ engineers, Directors, and VPs). * On-Site Presence: Maintain a regular on-site presence at customer locations to foster deep collaboration and cultural alignment. DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE * Proven Engineering Pedigree: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. You are a builder at heart, with a track record of delivering production-grade systems, not just advising on them. * Production Ownership & Operational Maturity: You have owned mission-critical services with real-world users. You understand the gravity of on-call rotations, the urgency of incident response, and the architectural rigor required to maintain "five nines" uptime. * Active Practitioner: You are currently in the IDE. You have a "ship-first" mentality and maintain a high velocity, staying current with modern frameworks, languages, and deployment patterns. * Full-Stack Architectural Depth: Broad technical fluency across the entire stack—from frontend performance and backend logic to database optimization and distributed infrastructure. * AI-Native Development: You have integrated AI-augmented workflows (e.g., Windsurf, OpenCode) into your daily development cycle to accelerate prototyping and delivery. * Systems Design & Strategic Thinking: Ability to decompose complex business requirements into scalable, resilient technical architectures. You can visualize the "big picture" without losing sight of the implementation details. * Cloud Ecosystem Fluency: Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including an understanding of serverless, networking, and security primitives. * High Agency & Navigating Ambiguity: You are a self-starter who thrives in "zero-to-one" environments. You don't wait for a ticket; you identify the problem and own the solution from end-to-end. * Executive Presence: Comfortable engaging in high-stakes technical and strategic discussions with VP-level stakeholders, with the ability to translate complex engineering trade-offs into business impact. BONUS POINTS * Direct experience building on Cloudflare Workers, or the broader Cloudflare Developer Platform. * Previous experience at a fast-paced startup or in a customer-facing engineering role where you operated directly within a partner’s codebase. * A visible public profile, including open-source contributions, technical blogging, or speaking engagements at industry conferences. COMPENSATION For Sweden based hires: Estimated annual salary is between SEK 760,000 - SEK 1,045,000. EQUITY This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. 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