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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Cloudflare's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 28% of Cloudflare's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare
- low 0 stale, 12 reposted of 342 open
- Hiring momentum
- 494 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Cloudflare's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Cloudflare.
About this role
As a Principal Presales Customer Engineer at Cloudflare, you will act as a trusted technical advisor, guiding enterprise clients through the technical aspects of their journey from pre-sales validation to deployment and ongoing support. You will collaborate with Account Executives to understand customer needs, design tailored solutions, and ensure successful adoption of Cloudflare's services while carrying a quota for new business and account growth. Your role will also involve leveraging AI to streamline workflows and enhance customer interactions.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Cloudflare as an employer.
What you need
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, Technical Account Management, or as a Forward Deployed Engineer.
- Ability to white-board, design, and articulate complex enterprise network and security architectures clearly.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate deeply technical concepts into business outcomes for both hands-on engineers and C-level executives.
- Proven track record of operating in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned environment, with a strong understanding of SaaS metrics, business value translation, and enterprise sales cycles.
- Exceptional presentation and stakeholder management skills, capable of bridging the gap between deep technical implementation details and high-level C-suite business strategy.
- Demonstrate depth in at least four technical areas: Internet fundamentals, Security, Performance, AI Proficiency, Coding/Scripting, Developer Platform Fluency.
Nice to have
- Track record of creating and delivering technical enablement - workshops, code samples, documentation, or developer onboarding.
- Experience with LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, and model-access controls.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
- Talent coming out of hyperscalers, digital natives, distributed systems environments, or startups.
Worth weighing
- Role requires travel up to 20–50% for customer meetings and events.
- No specific salary or benefits information provided in the posting.
- Candidates may need to attend in-person interviews at Cloudflare offices or hubs during the hiring process.
Summarised from Cloudflare's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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