Job Description
The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sales of the Cloudflare solution portfolio ensuring maximal business value fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solution Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds including but not limited to Sales Consultants Technical Consultants Technical Support and Program Managers.
You are a customer facing technologist within the Cloudflare Solutions Engineering team. You have experience in working in a pre-sales or other technical customer facing role supporting large enterprise accounts or acquiring new enterprise customers as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills suited to explain the benefits of CloudFlare products and services to existing and potential customers. In this role you will be responsible for partnering with the sales team to understand customer requirements and provide sales support prepare and deliver technical presentations and demos explaining the benefits of Cloudflare products to existing and potential customers and run proof of concept trials for customers.
Specifically we are looking for you to:
- Identify and map customer initiatives and business problems to Cloudflare solutions
- Build relationships and technical champions within customer accounts
- Develop and present customer presentations at every Enterprise Customer's organization level
- Lead demo and proof-of-concept activities for Cloudflare prospects and customers
- Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare with your peers through the creation of professional content including white papers blog posts and other knowledge sharing activities
- 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.
Basic Requirements
- Previous experience as a Solutions Engineer or other customer facing technical role with CDN Security Networking or SaaS
- Solid communication written and presentation skills
- Ability to work on several projects and activities concurrently
- Highly driven individuals that are curious team players and work with a sense of urgency
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
- The role requires up to 50% travel to attend meetings with prospects or customers attend conferences and other industry events and to collaborate with your Cloudflare teammates.
Examples of one or more desirable skills knowledge and experience
- Fundamental understanding of customer network and/or application architectures.
- Detailed understanding of workflow from user to application including hybrid architectures with Azure AWS GCP.
- Understanding knowledge or experience of application and/or network security
- Understanding knowledge or experiences with SaaS application environments
- Understanding knowledge or experience with VPN and remote access challenges
- Understanding knowledge or experience with SIEM and log analytics platforms
- Client OS fundamentals and software distribution
Other desirable skills areas include:
- Experience interacting with senior level/executives to communicate a message of network and security transformation
- Routing subnetting split tunnels. SD-WAN local internet breakout
- End user and application security risks - DDoS malware phishing viruses
- Knowledge of competitive market around CDN providers and internet security technologies
Compensation
Compensation 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 New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $234000 - $292000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
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
Skills Required
- Previous experience as a Solutions Engineer or other customer-facing technical role with CDN Security Networking or SaaS
- Solid communication written and presentation skills
- Ability to work on several projects and activities concurrently
- Highly driven curious team player works with a sense of urgency
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant work experience
- Willingness/ability to travel up to 50%
- Fundamental understanding of customer network and/or application architectures
- Detailed understanding of hybrid architectures with Azure AWS GCP
- Knowledge or experience of application and/or network security
- Experience with SaaS application environments
- Experience with VPN and remote access challenges
- Experience with SIEM and log analytics platforms
- Client OS fundamentals and software distribution knowledge
- Experience interacting with senior-level executives on network and security transformation
- Routing subnetting split tunnels SD-WAN local internet breakout knowledge
- Understanding of end user and application security risks (DDoS malware phishing)
- Knowledge of competitive CDN and internet security market
Cloudflare Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- Parental & Family Support—The program offers generous paid parental leave and family-forming support with childcare resources and a structured return-to-work program highlighted. Availability is described as global with alignment to local market practice.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—Time off is described as take-what-you-need (unlimited) vacation that encourages flexibility. Flexibility extends to how and where work is done supporting practical use of time away.
- Equity Value & Accessibility—Every employee is positioned as an owner through stock grants complemented by an employee stock purchase opportunity. An AI tools stipend is noted as an additional value-add alongside pay.
Cloudflare Insights
What We Do
Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools so any organization can gain the control they need to work develop and accelerate their business. Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits humanitarian groups and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven and our team is energized by a collaborative creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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