Senior Solutions Engineer - Partner Engineering (Special Projects)

About Us
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Special Projects: Solutions Engineer, Technology Partnerships
As a Solutions Engineer for our technology partnerships team (part of Special Projects), you will focus on two primary tasks: explore and lead new partner integrations with our product teams and external partners, and help to develop novel distribution partnerships with large external organizations that have significant impact on Cloudflare's overall business.
Past projects include integrations with endpoint security providers, prototyping and testing GRE/ IPsec integrations with popular SD-WAN providers, leading and managing new partnerships, and architecting and implementing future Zero Trust OEM partnerships.
The Special Projects SE is a unique opportunity that requires a solid understanding of all of Cloudflare's products - with the ability to develop an even deeper understanding, should it be required for a particular project. In this role, you'll interact with many partners and counterparts at senior technical and business levels. Presentation skills, a professional maturity, and the ability to engage others and represent Cloudflare is vital to this position.
In short, if you are a technology explorer looking to impact Cloudflare's business - let's talk.
Goals/Responsibilities

• Discover, validate and architect new integrations with our product and engineering teams
• Lead all technical aspects including project management for novel strategic partnerships
• Coordinate technical dependencies across other Cloudflare teams
• Describe new integrations and novel partnerships via blog posts, CFTV sessions, and technical trainings with customer facing and SE teams
• Generate awareness about Cloudflare's partnership efforts internally and externally

Personal Goals/Capabilities

• Grow a strong understanding of all of Cloudflare products and internal systems
• Develop industry expertise on technical trends e.g., in enterprise networking
• Develop strong relationships across Cloudflare's product, engineering, and customer facing teams
• Help prioritize our group's efforts to ensure the team is focused on the highest impact projects that are technically feasible

What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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.
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