Cloudflare · 2 days ago
Senior Solutions Engineer, Majors - Chicago
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelCloudflare is a company on a mission to build a better Internet, providing services that protect and accelerate online applications. They are seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer for Strategic Accounts to manage technical sales, build relationships with customers, and drive sales opportunities in large accounts.
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Responsibilities
Build and maintain long term technical relationships with the technical buyers (executives, managers and individual contributors) at your assigned accounts, becoming a trusted advisor to those stakeholders
Deeply understand the business-critical issues that your accounts are facing, and provide meaningful solution designs to facilitate technical validation of Cloudflare as a part of the customer’s infrastructure, including the coordination of Cloudflare colleagues throughout the sales and procurement cycle
Identify and drive technical conversations in every possible line of business within the accounts, engaging key technical buyers with the purpose of uncovering new areas of potential revenue & showing value to all possible parts of your accounts
Empower customers in their security and network transformation journeys, helping them to define strategies and architect necessary security controls aligned with Cloudflare product suites
Be the voice of the customer internally at Cloudflare, engaging with and influencing Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams to meet your customers’ needs
Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and other industry events with thought leadership and expertise
Qualification
Required
Strong experience in large account pre-sales management
Excellent verbal and written communications skills suited for executive-level engagement
Ability to build and maintain long term technical relationships with technical buyers
Deep understanding of business-critical issues faced by accounts
Provide meaningful solution designs to facilitate technical validation of Cloudflare
Identify and drive technical conversations in every possible line of business within accounts
Empower customers in their security and network transformation journeys
Be the voice of the customer internally at Cloudflare
Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at industry events
Polished communication and executive presentation skills
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with engineers and senior executives
Experience managing technical sales within large accounts
A deep understanding of core industry components of Cloudflare solutions
Understanding of Internet security technologies including DDoS mitigation, Firewalls, TLS, VPN, DLP
Understanding of networking technologies including TCP, UDP, DNS, IPv4 + IPv6, BGP routing, GRE, SD-WAN, MPLS, Global Traffic Management
Understanding of HTTP technologies including reverse proxy, forward proxy, serverless application development
Understanding of Zero-trust network access concepts including identity management and authentication
Understanding of cloud computing technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure
Some scripting or programming experience with one or more of JavaScript, Python, Golang, BASH
Understanding of regulatory requirements such as FedRAMP, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO/IEC
Company
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.
Founded in 2009
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonFidelityUnion Square Ventures
2025-06-13Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2019-09-12IPO
2019-03-12Series E· $150M
Leadership Team
Matthew Prince
CEO & Co-Founder
Lee Holloway
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer
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