Available Locations: London (hybrid), the Netherlands (remote), Paris, or Munich

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.

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Fluency in Hebrew and English

Nice to Have

• 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.

Available Locations: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lisbon, Portugal, London, United Kingdom, Munich, Germany, Paris, France

What You’ll Do

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organisation is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support to do so. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organisation as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

The range of products and solutions offered by Cloudflare are broad so that we are able to meet our lofty goal of helping to build a better Internet. A broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technology is required, the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare. All the resources and training required to be effective for the role, will be provided.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience

Our Solutions Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds: IT, engineering, software development, product management, financial consulting, customer support & project delivery. We're serious about building a diverse team. When hiring we look for diversity of experience combined with genuine curiosity for our technology.

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms. You are naturally curious, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty. You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with customers, and look forward to helping them realise the full promise of Cloudflare. On the Solutions Engineering team, you will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other.

You will have a good fundamental understanding on how to obtain the technical win so that customers choose our proposed solutions over that of competitors.

Additional experience might include a combination of the skills below: 

• 3-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry (early or mid-level experience).
• Fluent Czech and English (written & spoken).
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands.
• Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face. 
• Understanding of “how the internet works”. For example:
• Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favour one over the other;
• Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS?;
• You understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike;
• Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.
• A knowledge of the competitive landscape for one or more of: DDoS, CDN, Performance, DNS, Developer platform or Zero-Trust/SASE service providers.
• You're OK with some (10-15 days per quarter) travel without travel restrictions: we expect to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or do talks. 

Bonus! 

• Previous experience in a pre-sales SE or consulting role. (note: doesn't have to be in tech);
• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
• Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends in Security such as Zero Trust. 

Available Locations: Netherlands, United kingdom, Germany, Portugal, France, Sweden

About Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solutions Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. 

What you'll do as a Solutions Architect

The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leadership role. You are a customer facing hands-on technologist with credibility built on domain expertise across Cloudflare portfolio.  You should have solid experience in influencing enterprise architecture design across various senior buyer personas both at customers and partner organizations. Your role will be to convince these decision makers of the long term value of thinking of Cloudflare as a strategic technology partner. 

You will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product, through to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

You will work as a part of a highly visible structured pursuit team attached to designated strategic accounts, working to understand their unique business challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long term solution architecture with Cloudflare as a centerpiece. An equally important component of this role is the expectation that you scale your expertise and knowledge across the wider Pre Sales Solution Engineering organization.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Build and maintain the long term technical relationship of key accounts, ensuring the successful design, proof and adoption of Cloudflare as a part of the customers critical infrastructure.
• Identify and drive strategic conversations with key stakeholders with the purpose of increasing our reputation and authority within the business, and further establishing our footprint within the customers landscape.
• Be the voice of the customer, engaging and influencing Product Management and Product Roadmap to serve their needs. 
• Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare within your field through the creation of professional content, including white papers, reference architectures, blog posts.
• Represent and Evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and Industry focused events with thought leadership and expertise.
• Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• 7+ years of experience in similar role or experience in a technical leadership role
• Previous experience as a solution architect, consultant or technical marketing engineer building, architecting or deploying security solutions
• Good understanding of AI, security challenges and its applicability to today’s enterprise landscape
• Proven track record using it to help drive revenue.
• Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations
• Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms
• Proven experience working with customers and partners in successful design and deployment of solutions
• Ability to juggle and successfully drive projects with customers, prospects, and partners.
• Experience with cloud computing solutions implementations including Microsoft 365, Azure, Google, AWS.
• Experience with Application, Security, Performance and Reliability products such as WAF, Bot Management, DDOS, Firewall, DNS and CDN.
• Knowledge of competitive market  around CDN providers, Web application Firewall, Remote access solutions, Next generation Firewalls, DDOS mitigations solutions, SD-WAN solutions , Secure Gateway solutions, SSE/SASE
• Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways.  
• Experience working with Identity Providers such as Entra AD, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc.
• Knowledge of web application programming XML, REST/SOAP API’s, REST, JSON,
• Experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and IAC products like Terraform
• Knowledge of security and cryptography.
• Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies and containerization

Available Locations: London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Munich, Paris

What you’ll do:

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organization is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solutions portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design, and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

Technology moves at lightning speed; a broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technologies is required, and the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience:

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts—like how an edge network reduces "lag" or how WAF rules protect a player's wallet—in easy-to-understand terms. You are naturally curious, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty.

You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with customers, from managing "micro-burst" traffic spikes to navigating regulatory requirements. You will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other obtain the technical win so that customers choose Cloudflare to protect and accelerate their platforms.

Additional experience might include:

• Language: fluent in Polish and English
• 5-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Vertical Expertise: Understanding the cloud architectures, with main focus on security layers, such as CDN, WAF, SASE and Anti-DDoS..
• Technical "How the Internet Works": * Deep understanding of TCP vs. UDP, why it matters and why it's so critical from security point of view;
• Solid understanding of DDoS mitigation strategies at Layers 3, 4, and 7 to prevent services disruption.

Pre-Sales Excellence: Previous experience in a technical consulting or SE role, with a track record of demonstrating ROI to CTOs and Infrastructure Leads.

• 
  Project Management: Ability to manage complex Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and prioritize between competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Excellent presentation skills with a strong command of business English. 
• Market Knowledge: Familiarity with the competitive landscape for CDN, Zero-Trust, and SASE providers.
• Travel: Ability to travel to customer sites, industry events and internal summits.

Bonus!

• Scripting Skills: Demonstrated experience with JavaScript, Python, or Rust, and a desire to help customers build the next generation of serverless features on Cloudflare Workers.

• Security Trends: Exposure to emerging trends such as Zero Trust for securing internal employees traffic or remote-work environments.

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Corporate Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Corporate Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Corporate Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Corporate Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

The presales mission is to sell better to reduce turn rate and to push for value-driven propositions that solve for customers. 

As a Corporate Solutions Engineer, you will partner with the sales organization seamlessly to drive the execution of prospective and expansive deals. You will utilize your technical knowledge to become a trusted partner with sales and services.

What will your day-to-day look like? 

• Building and maintaining relationships with sales reps, partners, customers and other internal stakeholders
• Gaining knowledge of HubSpot products for better-proposed solutions
• Understanding customer challenges and how to deliver technical value to meet their business goals and objectives
• Participating and directing projects relevant to presales, sales, and the wider business
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced team members

What do you need to succeed in this role? 

• Fluency in written and spoken English & Dutch
• PreSales, technical consultant/sales role or similar (6+ years)
• Experience working with internal teams and stakeholders and dealing with external customers 
• You are open to admitting mistakes and believe that actionable feedback is a great way to learn and grow
• You enjoy collaborating with different teams and are motivated to develop yourself
• You have HEART

What are the perks that come with this role?

• Constant learning - HubSpot product is frequently updated and you need to be aware of all the new features.
• Supportive team - your peers and Manager will be there to set you up for success.
• Professional Development - career progression in PreSales, or transitioning to other teams; Mentorship, and Team Lead Programs. 
• Benefits - check out here

Available Locations: London, Lisbon, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam 

What you’ll do

What you’ll do:

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organization is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solutions portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design, and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs.

Technology moves at lightning speed; a broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technologies is required, and the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare.

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience:

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts—like how an edge network reduces "lag" or how WAF rules protect a player's wallet—in easy-to-understand terms. You are naturally curious, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty.

You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with customers, from managing "micro-burst" traffic spikes to navigating regulatory requirements. You will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other obtain the technical win so that customers choose Cloudflare to protect and accelerate their platforms.

Additional experience might include:

• Language: fluent in Ukrainian and English
• 5-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Vertical Expertise: Understanding the cloud architectures, with main focus on security layers, such as CDN, WAF, SASE and Anti-DDoS..
• Technical "How the Internet Works": * Deep understanding of TCP vs. UDP, why it matters and why it's so critical from security point of view;
• Solid understanding of DDoS mitigation strategies at Layers 3, 4, and 7 to prevent services disruption.

Pre-Sales Excellence: Previous experience in a technical consulting or SE role, with a track record of demonstrating ROI to CTOs and Infrastructure Leads.

• 
  Project Management: Ability to manage complex Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and prioritize between competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Excellent presentation skills with a strong command of business English. 
• Market Knowledge: Familiarity with the competitive landscape for CDN, Zero-Trust, and SASE providers.
• Travel: Ability to travel to customer sites, industry events and internal summits.

Bonus!

• Scripting Skills: Demonstrated experience with JavaScript, Python, or Rust, and a desire to help customers build the next generation of serverless features on Cloudflare Workers.

• Security Trends: Exposure to emerging trends such as Zero Trust for securing internal employees traffic or remote-work environments.

Available Locations: Amsterdam, London or Munich

What you’ll do:

The Pre-Sales Solutions Engineering organisation is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and efficient adoption roadmaps for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

As a Solutions Engineer, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. You will aid your customers and will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support to do so. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organisation as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer’s needs. The range of products and solutions offered by Cloudflare are broad so that we are able to meet our lofty goal of helping to build a better Internet. A broad knowledge of Internet performance and security technology is required, the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare. All the resources and training required to be effective for the role, will be provided. 

Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience:

Our Solutions Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds: IT, engineering, software development, product management, financial consulting, customer support & project delivery. We're serious about building a diverse team. When hiring we look for diversity of experience combined with genuine curiosity for our technology.

Ultimately, you are passionate about technology and have the ability to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms. You are naturally curious, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty. You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with customers, and look forward to helping them realise the full promise of Cloudflare. On the Solutions Engineering team, you will find a collaborative environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other. You will have a good fundamental understanding on how to obtain the technical win so that customers choose our proposed solutions over that of competitors.

Additional experience might include a combination of the skills below:

• Russian language skill to a business conversation level 
• 5-to-10 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Previous experience in a pre-sales SE or consulting role.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with strong command of business English and (where appropriate) one or more languages of the regionally aligned sales team you will be
  supporting.
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritise between competing demands.
• Demonstrating empathy with customers and quickly identifying challenges and pain points they face.
• Understanding of “how the internet works”. For example:
• Know the differences between TCP & UDP, and understand what kinds of applications may favour one over the other;
• Can explain the difference between authoritative DNS & recursive DNS?;
• You understand the role of a firewall, why TLS (SSL) plays an increasingly important role on today's Internet, a solid understanding of HTTP and a willingness to dive deeper into the quirks of clients & servers alike
• Understanding of how customers make buying decisions, how to explain ROI.
• A knowledge of the competitive landscape for one or more of: DDoS, CDN, Performance, DNS, Developer platform or Zero-Trust/SASE service providers.
• You're OK with some (10-15 days per quarter) travel without travel restrictions: we expect to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or do talks.

Bonus!

• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills;
• Exposure to emerging technical landscape trends in Security such as Zero Trust.

Available Locations: Netherlands

About Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare

The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solutions Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. 

Solutions Engineers work closely with our customers and partners to educate, empower, and ensure their success delivering Cloudflare security, reliability and performance solutions. 

What you'll do as a Solutions Engineer

This is a Solutions Engineer role with a focus on the broader technology ecosystem that carry Cloudflare solutions to market across Benelux. Your role will be to build champions and enable technical teams alongside our Benelux sales organisation to drive pipeline and close deals.

As the technical advocate inside Cloudflare, you will work closely with teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Support and our channel partners to ensure our customers succeed with Cloudflare security, reliability, and performance solutions.

You have strong experience in pre-sales, partner and account management, and excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, suited for both technical and executive-level engagement. You are comfortable speaking about the Cloudflare vision with all audiences. Ultimately, you are passionate about technology, curious by nature, and an avid builder who is not afraid to get your hands dirty.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Build and maintain long-term technical relationships with prospects, customers and ecosystem organisations across Benelux through demonstrating value, enablement, and uncovering new areas of potential revenue
• Drive technical solution design conversations through use case qualification and collaborative technical wins through demonstrations and proofs-of-concept
• Develop passionate technical champions within the technology ranks of your accounts, helping them drive sales for identified opportunities and build revenue pipeline
• Evangelize and represent Cloudflare through technical thought leadership and expertise
• Be the voice of the market internally at Cloudflare, engaging with and influencing Product and Engineering teams to meet the needs of your accounts and their customers
• Travel requirement in the Benelux to support engagements, attend conferences and industry events, and collaborate with Cloudflare teammates

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Language & Communication

• Fluency in Dutch and English (verbal and written)
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences, including C-level stakeholders
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills (whiteboarding, demos, executive briefings)

PreSales Competencies

• Experience managing technical sales cycles end-to-end
• Ability to articulate business value and ROI of technical solutions, not just features
• Experience working within an integrated account team (alongside Account Executives, Customer Success, BDRs, and channel partners)

Technical Competencies

• Networking technologies including TCP/IP, UDP, DNS (authoritative and recursive, DNSSEC), IPv4/IPv6, BGP routing, Autonomous Systems, subnetting
• Tunneling and connectivity: GRE, IPsec, MPLS, SDWAN
• Cloud networking concepts: VPCs, peering, interconnect
• DDoS attack types (L3/L4/L7) and mitigation strategies
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule configuration and tuning
• VPN concepts and their limitations relative to Zero Trust approaches
• API security: API Gateway, rate limiting, schema validation, abuse prevention
• Bot management concepts and detection techniques
• SASE concepts and Zero Trust Networking architectures (ZTNA, CASB, SWG, DLP, RBI as integrated platform)
• Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) vs. traditional VPN architecture
• HTTP technologies and reverse proxy architecture: WAF, CDN, caching mechanics
• Detailed understanding of the flow from user to application, including hybrid cloud architectures
• Working knowledge of major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP (architecture patterns, native security tooling, VPC/peering models)
• Familiarity with InfrastructureasCode concepts (e.g. Terraform)
• Cloudflare Workers and the edge compute model (JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Familiarity with related primitives: KV, Object storage, serverless compute

Competitive & Industry Knowledge

• Familiarity with the competitive landscape across Cloudflare's product areas
• Understanding of why customers move from on-premises appliances to cloud-delivered security
• Awareness of relevant industry verticals: Financial Services, eCommerce, Gaming, Media, SaaS, Healthcare

Soft Skills & Behaviours

• Trusted advisor mindset: prioritizing long-term customer success over short-term convenience
• Intellectual curiosity and a habit of continuous self-directed learning
• Strong collaborative instincts: sharing knowledge, writing documentation, contributing to team resources
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to research, test, and synthesize answers independently
• Emotional intelligence and the ability to foster inclusive, constructive working relationships
• Growth mindset and openness to feedback

What we value

More than any specific technology, we look for intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and a collaborative spirit. On the Solutions Engineering team, you will find an environment where everyone brings different strengths and jumps in to help each other. If you are passionate about technology and look forward to helping customers and ecosystem organisations realise the full promise of Cloudflare, we'd love to hear from you.