Senior Customer Engineer, Enterprise AI - Bay Area

Senior Customer Engineer, Enterprise AI - Bay Area

Want to work with emerging and established AI leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI on Cloudflare's most cutting edge AI Developer platform offering?

Compensation Range For Enterprise AI CE $213,500 – $335,500

Location: Hybrid — San Francisco/Bay Area. We are only considering candidates working currently in the Bay Area OR are intent on moving to the Bay Area

About Us

We're not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap. We're looking for builders — people who spot the "normalized" problem everyone else has learned to live with and have the curiosity and drive to fix it. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to move faster and sharing every improvement across the team. If you value curiosity over bureaucracy and see AI as a partner in solving hard problems, you'll fit right in.

About the Role & the Team

Customer Engineers on the Digital Native Enterprise team work with Cloudflare's most innovative and high-growth accounts — Cloud-native, technologically advanced companies building at internet scale. This role focuses on both the acquisition of new Digital Native accounts and the expansion of existing ones. The ideal candidate is a builder with a deep technical foundation and a commercial mindset, capable of engaging from the engineer in the weeds to the executive in the boardroom — across Application Development, Performance, Security, and Infrastructure.

As a Customer Engineer, you are a technologist embedded within the GTM organization. You own the technical relationship from initial discovery through onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion. You'll be delivering architectural value and measurable business outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle.

You will report to the Regional Customer Engineering Leader and partner closely with your aligned Account Executives.

What You'll Do

Technical Validation (Pre-Sales)

• Lead technical discovery, design bespoke architectures, and deliver compelling demos and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) across Cloudflare's portfolio — Security, Networking, and Developer Platforms
• Build technical champions and executive relationships within target accounts
• Represent Cloudflare at industry events, developer communities, and cybersecurity conferences

Customer Adoption & Value Realization

• Serve as the primary technical contact from contract signature through full platform adoption
• Lead and oversee technical onboarding and implementation — you are the engineering relationship, not a handoff
• Proactively monitor customer health telemetry, resolve integration bottlenecks, and ensure rapid time-to-value

Commercial Accountability & Expansion

• Carry a variable quota tied directly to new business acquisition and ongoing account growth
• Identify and drive strategic cross-sell and upsell opportunities grounded in platform usage data and customer business objectives
• Lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that translate platform metrics into C-level ROI

Trusted Advisory

• Maintain continuous, deep relationships with key stakeholders — from engineering leads to CISOs and CTOs — throughout the entire customer lifecycle
• Advise on architecture best practices, security posture, and Cloudflare platform strategy aligned to customer business goals

What We're Looking For

Required

• Deep understanding on The Life of a Request on the Internet
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role: Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Sales Engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering
• Broad technical expertise across: web security (WAF, DDoS mitigation, TLS, Zero Trust / SASE), networking (BGP, DNS, SD-WAN, MPLS, TCP/IP), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills — equally fluent in a whiteboard architecture session with engineers and a strategic business review with the C-suite
• AI-Native Development: You have integrated AI-augmented workflows (e.g., Windsurf, OpenCode) into your daily development cycle to accelerate prototyping and delivery.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with Cloudflare's Developer and AI platform: Workers, Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize
• Applied AI knowledge: prompt engineering, LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or Go — able to write integration scripts, API connectors, and edge computing functions
• Familiarity with CDN, reverse proxy (WAF), forward proxy (SWG), and serverless application patterns
• Hands-on experience building cloud-based applications
• Experience building relationships and driving technical wins across multi-stakeholder, enterprise accounts

Bonus Points

• Cloudflare platform certifications or meaningful hands-on deployment experience
• Exposure to DevOps, security operations, or emerging GenAI trends
• Relevant industry certifications (cloud, security, networking)

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For San Francisco based hires: Estimated annual salary of $213,500 – $335,500 OTE, Base + Commissions

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?

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.