Solutions Architect, AI/Cloudflare Developer Platform

Location: Austin, TX or San Francisco, CA
Solution Architect, AI / Cloudflare Developer Platform
As a Solution Architect, Cloudflare AI / Developer Platform and a member of the sales team, you will help customers understand the value proposition of the Cloudflare Developer Platform and demonstrate how to effectively build applications with our products.
Every day as a Solution Architect is different. You will utilize both technical and business skills to advise customers and sales teams, support strategic opportunities, architect innovative solutions, and develop proofs of concept / demonstrations. Your technical knowledge of Cloudflare's products and system design will be vital to designing solutions that meet our customers' needs and expectations.
Serving as a trusted technical advisor, Solution Architects guide and enable clients, partners, and teams within Cloudflare on product capabilities, positioning and competitive intelligence. You will form a tight feedback loop with product, product marketing, and technical pre-sales to refine and evolve our products.
The ideal candidate possesses a consultative mindset, demonstrable success working with customers, and deep, practical knowledge of modern web technologies, cloud architecture, and experience building on a distributed serverless platform. No matter your background, you have natural curiosity and desire to solve problems, achieve goals, and design the most elegant and efficient solutions to address client needs. A successful Solution Architect at Cloudflare is able to act as a trusted advisor for our customers, while balancing the technical and business needs of the role - actively building and regularly presenting technical solutions to varied audiences.
Responsibilities

• Partner with the sales organization to drive revenue, new customers and pipeline of AI and Developer Platform solutions.
• Lead technical discovery with customers and jointly architect best practice solutions to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, sales, and marketing to drive developer platform revenue and customer adoption.
• Present to strategic customers as an expert of our Developer Platform solutions.
• Align Director and C-Level perceived business and technical value with Cloudflare developer solutions.
• Provide succinct feedback to cross-functional teams to deliver relevant Developer content, use cases, customer stories, and data driven value propositions.

Skill Requirements

• 5+ years of experience selling or supporting technical sales in the cloud computing industry.
• Deep technical expertise across cloud infrastructure and AI/ML - you have built production systems that combine both as a solutions engineer, entrepreneur, or solution architect.
• In-depth knowledge of at least one major public cloud provider (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Practical knowledge and experience designing systems. You have built and deployed a production web application either professionally or as a hobbyist and are able to clearly articulate the design and explain the considerations / trade-offs. You are able to hear a clear, non-technical description of an application, ask clarifying questions, and quickly design a high-level, conceptual architecture.
• Software development experience delivering full-stack applications, preferably using modern JavaScript frameworks, a variety of databases, and Serverless tooling. Experience building with modern coding assistants.
• Strong understanding of developer workflows (branching, versioning, CI/CD practices, system integrations).
• Knowledge of key market players/competitors in the cloud computing, AI and storage spaces.
• Up to 30% travel.

Other desirable skills areas include:

• You've built something on Cloudflare Workers.
• AWS Solutions Architect or GCP Cloud Architect certifications.
• Providing structured customer feedback to influence product direction.
• Actively stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in cloud computing to inform product strategy and roadmap.

CompensationCompensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
This role is eligible to earn incentive compensation under Cloudflare's Sales Compensation Plan. The estimated annual salary range includes the on-target incentive compensation that may be attained in this role under the Sales Compensation Plan.
For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of 212,000.00 - 292,000.00
EquityThis role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
BenefitsCloudflare 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