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.

A quick snapshot…

The Information System Engineer is responsible for the deployment and support of IT infrastructure, systems, application software and network services. This holder provides complex technical support to ensure application, infrastructure and system availability. The role includes problem diagnosis and resolution with activities comprising of requirement analysis, testing, integrating and managing components and applications. The role holder may also specialize in individual areas of responsibility where they may be the subject matter expert having greater responsibility and focus in these areas.

Why it’s a big deal…

This role is critical to keeping Conga’s technology environment secure, stable, and scalable. By proactively managing systems and infrastructure, responding effectively to incidents, and ensuring compliance with internal IT strategy, security, and regulatory standards, the System Engineer directly enables business continuity and future growth.

Here’s what we’re looking for...

• Proactively maintain and manage the technologies and platforms for the area responsible.
• Design, Document and Implement solutions as required.
• Provide support and escalation in response to issues as required by the business, potentially including out of business hours, ensuring SLA and resolution times are adhered to and correct escalation paths are appropriately followed.
• Accurately log and document changes and work in the appropriate systems.
• Impact assesses work and changes to ensure minimum impact to not only the platforms you are responsible for but any platforms or business processes which interact with your area of responsibility.
• Ensure any work undertaken is in line with the Internal IT Strategy and in compliance with company, security and regulatory standards.
• Assisting with ad-hoc or project tasks required by the business or in line with the overall IT strategy.
• To maintain equipment and software inventory and liaise with Asset Management teams.
• Ensuring policies and processes are adhered to while also maintaining the appropriate urgency to a piece of work.
• Evaluating and balancing priorities to ensure work is completed on a business impact/benefit basis.
• To keep up to speed with emerging technologies and developments both within group and externally within their field of expertise.
• Share, and encourage the sharing of, technical knowledge across the company.
• Occasional travel may also be required between offices.
• Lead desktop and helpdesk support efforts, making sure all desktop applications, workstations, and related equipment problems are resolved in a timely manner with limited disruptions
• Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues
• Communications: concisely deliver the appropriate information to the right audience
• Must work well in a distributed team environment

Here’s what will give you an edge…

• 3+ years of experience or relevant technical training in one or more of the following:
  • Identity Management (Permissions, Policies, Authentication/ Replication)
  • Collaboration tools (Email, Messaging, etc)
  • Microsoft Server and Windows OS
  • Networking Skills (VPN, DHCP, Wireless)
  • Device Management tools (Intune, Jamf, Patch Management)
• Experience of working within an enterprise environment with remote disparate users on a global scale.
• Understanding of device deployment processes.
• Familiar with Apple MAC devices.
• Understanding of IP networking as it relates to local area and wide area networks.
• Experience with cloud platforms Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS.
• Understanding of security technologies and best practices.
• Outstanding customer service skills and an ability to work with all levels of management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Must be able to take direction, manage priorities, and perform tasks with minimal supervision.
• Must possess attention to detail and keen aptitude for technology along with willingness to take on new challenges.
• Ability to document and explain complex technical subject matter.

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At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

👉 Discover life at TheFork

What you will do:

• Design, build, and evolve test automation frameworks and internal tooling (Playwright + TypeScript as primary stack)
• Act as owner of the test ecosystem, including repositories, architecture, and long-term maintainability
• Define and enforce testing standards, guidelines, and best practices across engineering teams
• Enable developers to write effective tests by providing abstractions, utilities, and reusable components
• Drive test architecture decisions (structure, layering, fixtures, data handling, isolation strategies)
• Collaborate with teams to improve testability of systems (APIs, frontend, data flows) without directly owning feature tests
• Own and optimize CI/CD test pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), focusing on speed, reliability, and scalability
• Identify systemic issues (flakiness, instability, slow feedback loops) and implement structural solutions, not patches
• Design and maintain test data management and environment orchestration strategies
• Define, implement, and evolve quality gates and metrics (coverage, reliability, execution time, signal quality)
• Support teams in debugging complex failures by providing observability and diagnostic tooling
• Explore and integrate AI-driven testing capabilities to improve productivity and test robustness
• Mentor engineers and promote a quality engineering mindset across the organization

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications (Mandatory requirements to be listed here)

• 2 to 5 years of experience
• Strong experience as an SDET / Quality Engineer with a focus on frameworks and tooling, not just test implementation
• Excellent programming skills in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Proven experience designing and maintaining test frameworks at scale
• Hands-on experience with modern automation tools (Playwright preferred)
• Strong understanding of test architecture patterns (test pyramid, separation of concerns, isolation strategies)
• Experience enabling teams through libraries, SDKs, or shared tooling
• Solid experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins), including pipeline optimization and debugging
• Experience with API testing (REST/GraphQL) and designing reusable testing layers
• Strong problem-solving skills focused on root cause analysis and systemic improvements
• Comfortable working cross-team and acting as a technical reference for quality
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

You Can Impress With These Additions (“Nice to have” to be listed here)

• Experience building internal developer platforms or test platforms
• Deep expertise in Playwright ecosystem (custom reporters, fixtures, plugins, parallelization strategies)
• Experience with GraphQL testing tooling and schema-driven validation
• Familiarity with quality gate systems (e.g., SonarQube / SonarCloud) and defining engineering-wide standards
• Experience with test data platforms (dynamic data generation, seeding, environment control)
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing / LLM-based tooling
• Backend development experience (Node.js preferred)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and ephemeral environments
• Strong understanding of observability (logs, metrics, tracing) applied to test systems
• Experience in organizations where testing is decentralized but governed centrally

What we offer you: 

😄 An awesome team 

🏠 A permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week +  up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

💸 Competitive fixed salary and bonus 

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

🤝 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓 Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

🐣Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

🏥Health insurance covered by the company 

👶 Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage

🚝 Transport allowance

🏥Health insurance fully covered by the company 

👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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Work Location: Paris, France

What you’ll do

Cloudflare’s solutions engineering function is responsible for collaborating with clients from early-stage ideation through to planning for production. Being much more than an expert solely in Cloudflare’s services, our Senior Solutions Engineers are expected to sit alongside our peers in our clients, and to contribute their energy, ideas and opinion on solving the hard problems we face in our industry today. Often this means deep work on the art-of-the possible (and sometimes being willing to put aside preconceptions on the impossible!).

On any given day, the role will provide both a challenging and rewarding opportunity to develop adjacent technology expertise as well as mastering key skills relating to technical and industry advocacy on behalf of our clients. A key aspect will be offering good* practice guidance and adopting a deploy-to-production mindset, where it is as much about the operational process as it is about the product. 

As part of our broader solutions engineering community, you will be working alongside peers with deep subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge upon whose insights will support your own. Of course, as a senior member of the team, you will also be in a position to contribute to a body-of-knowledge across key domains of networking, cybersecurity and edge computing, as well as industry analyses and perspectives. 

For this role, our Solutions Engineering team members focus on large clients for whom we are able to develop deep understanding and partnership to collaborate with. Building on a track-record of success, this role has an emphasis on supporting our large enterprise clients in the Major Accounts segment.

* As an SE, there will often be more than one way to solve a problem - hence what might be a best practice in a given context might not be true in another! This is where your experience will help.

Who we are

The problems that our clients face are both diverse and unique - which is reflected in how we think about our Solution Engineering team. Building on the benefit of the hive-mind, our SE team is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from end-customers to other vendors, Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering. In short, if we are to solve complex problems we need a diverse, curious and collaborative team.

Cloudflare’s mission is one which is both simple and timeless, to help build a better Internet. This requires a broad set of services and associated knowledge of Internet performance and security technology. We recognise many of our team usually join us with one or two core domains of expertise, however key to success is the curiosity to maintain and develop new knowledge which is essential to keeping up with the high rate of product innovation at Cloudflare. 

In our aim to support your success, all the resources and training required to build a custom personal development plan 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 manage technical validation projects so that customers can have an informed opinion on the best solution to a given problem - with an eye on what could come next.

Additional experience might include a combination of the skills below:

• Showing up in the right-way: bringing a positive attitude, open-minded to new ideas and bringing your energy and ideas to help our clients and our team succeed. 
• 10+ years of experience in the IT industry (mid-level or senior engineering level experience).
• 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 in-region travel (15~30 days per quarter): eg. Being next to our clients means that we need to travel to customer offices, conferences and/or events.

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 such as machine learning, GenAI, DevOps, security operations etc. 

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive.
If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

👉 Discover life at TheFork

What you will do:

• Design, build, and evolve test automation frameworks and internal tooling (Playwright + TypeScript as primary stack)
• Act as owner of the test ecosystem, including repositories, architecture, and long-term maintainability
• Define and enforce testing standards, guidelines, and best practices across engineering teams
• Enable developers to write effective tests by providing abstractions, utilities, and reusable components
• Drive test architecture decisions (structure, layering, fixtures, data handling, isolation strategies)
• Collaborate with teams to improve testability of systems (APIs, frontend, data flows) without directly owning feature tests
• Own and optimize CI/CD test pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), focusing on speed, reliability, and scalability
• Identify systemic issues (flakiness, instability, slow feedback loops) and implement structural solutions, not patches
• Design and maintain test data management and environment orchestration strategies
• Define, implement, and evolve quality gates and metrics (coverage, reliability, execution time, signal quality)
• Support teams in debugging complex failures by providing observability and diagnostic tooling
• Explore and integrate AI-driven testing capabilities to improve productivity and test robustness
• Mentor engineers and promote a quality engineering mindset across the organization

Who you are:

You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications (Mandatory requirements to be listed here)

• 2 to 5 years of experience
• Strong experience as an SDET / Quality Engineer with a focus on frameworks and tooling, not just test implementation
• Excellent programming skills in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Proven experience designing and maintaining test frameworks at scale
• Hands-on experience with modern automation tools (Playwright preferred)
• Strong understanding of test architecture patterns (test pyramid, separation of concerns, isolation strategies)
• Experience enabling teams through libraries, SDKs, or shared tooling
• Solid experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins), including pipeline optimization and debugging
• Experience with API testing (REST/GraphQL) and designing reusable testing layers
• Strong problem-solving skills focused on root cause analysis and systemic improvements
• Comfortable working cross-team and acting as a technical reference for quality
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

You Can Impress With These Additions (“Nice to have” to be listed here)

• Experience building internal developer platforms or test platforms
• Deep expertise in Playwright ecosystem (custom reporters, fixtures, plugins, parallelization strategies)
• Experience with GraphQL testing tooling and schema-driven validation
• Familiarity with quality gate systems (e.g., SonarQube / SonarCloud) and defining engineering-wide standards
• Experience with test data platforms (dynamic data generation, seeding, environment control)
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing / LLM-based tooling
• Backend development experience (Node.js preferred)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and ephemeral environments
• Strong understanding of observability (logs, metrics, tracing) applied to test systems
• Experience in organizations where testing is decentralized but governed centrally

What we offer you: 

😄 An awesome team 

🏠 A permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 

⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week +  up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

💸 Competitive fixed salary and bonus 

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  

🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

🤝 Highly inclusive working environment 

🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc 

🎓 Continuous learning and development programs

😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

🐣Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

🏥Health insurance covered by the company 

👶 Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage

🚝 Transport allowance

🏥Health insurance fully covered by the company 

👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area    

🎤 Team building events

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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