Senior Solution Engineer - Mid Market - San Francisco · Cloudflare

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:45:01 GMT
Engineering

Cloudflare · Hybrid · hybrid

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.

As a Senior Solution Engineer, you will work closely with our prospects and customers to educate, empower, and ensure their success on the Cloudflare platform. Your technical expertise in Cloudflare’s global distributed network and technology will allow you to find best-fit solutions for prospects, to train and onboard new customers via video-conference or in person, through documentation, and to support the long-term success of the customer.

Responsibilities

As critical members of Cloudflare’s sales team, Solutions Engineers drive technical discussions and implementations to help generate new business, expand existing business, and keep our customers happy.

In business generation and expansion, you’ll be tasked with qualification of prospect and customer use cases, technical requirements discovery, leading demonstrations, solution identification and design, and collaborative work on proofs-of-concept (PoCs).

For our existing customers, Solutions Engineers are part of a dedicated account team that advises the customer on technical best practices, implementation of Cloudflare products and features, and strategic guidance on internet security and performance.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash, Lua, Go) or a desire to expand those skills.

Expertise in internet technologies: OSI Model layers 1-7, BGP, GRE, TCP/UDP, DNS (authoritative and recursive), HTTP(S), SSL / TLS.

Familiarity with Zero Trust Framework and SASE related concepts.

6 years plus of experience in a customer-facing sales or consulting role.

Technical curiosity and passion: Cloudflare is at the cutting edge of internet technology, and our Solutions Engineers are viewed as subject-matter experts.

A focus on learning, teaching, collaboration, mentorship, and growth, not only personally but also within the team and company.

Aside from technical and collaborative skills, we place a high value on project management, relationship building, and EQ.

Desired

You’ve built web applications before, or contributed to existing web applications in a meaningful way.

You understand the role of a firewall, the difference between L3, L4, and L7 firewalls, and that ‘ACL’ doesn't always mean Anterior Cruciate Ligament.

You're not afraid of command-line interfaces, RESTful APIs, or analyzing HTTP request and response in a browser’s web inspector.

You can describe the differences between CSRF, XSS, and SQLi in detail, and Cloudflare's role in defending against them.

Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such a PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC-2.

An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

Bonus Points

Graduate-level degrees in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.

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