Cloudflare

Senior Customer Engineer, Japan

Cloudflare · Hybrid

Posted 10 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
10 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

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About this role

As a Senior Customer Engineer at Cloudflare, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, managing the technical relationship with customers from initial discovery through ongoing account expansion. Your role involves leading technical validation, building bespoke architectures, and leveraging AI to streamline workflows, all while maintaining a focus on driving measurable business outcomes. You will also be responsible for commercial accountability, ensuring deep platform adoption and identifying growth opportunities.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
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, Sales Engineering, or as a Forward Deployed Engineer.
  • Broad technical expertise spanning web security, networking (routing, DNS, DDoS mitigation), cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience building, deploying, or architecting solutions using Cloudflare's developer platform and AI ecosystem, specifically Workers AI and AI Gateway.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages to write custom integration scripts, API connectors, and edge computing functions.

What you get

  • Competitive base salary
  • Variable commission structure tied to successful execution of full-lifecycle commercial targets, including new business acquisition and ongoing adoption milestones.

Worth weighing

  • Role involves a quota-carrying responsibility which may add pressure to meet sales targets.
  • The position requires a deep understanding of both technical and commercial aspects, which may be challenging for some candidates.
  • No specific salary range provided in the posting.

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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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