Senior Customer Solutions Engineer

Senior Customer Solutions Engineer

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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!

Job Locations: Austin, TX

Job Description

As a Customer Solutions Engineer (CSE), you will be the trusted technical advisor throughout a customer's lifecycle. You are a product expert and will leverage your knowledge to ensure our Enterprise customers understand and utilize the Cloudflare platform to its fullest extent. Your goal is to help customers be successful and derive the most value possible from their Cloudflare investment.

As a CSE, you strive to understand customer requirements and issues at the molecular level. No matter your background, you have natural curiosity and desire to identify root causes of strange problems and the most elegant and efficient solutions. Fundamentally, you are enamored with how the internet works.

You will work closely with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) as well as every other team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product to Engineering and Customer Support. Customer Success will drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and implement scalable solutions for your customer's needs.

Responsibilities:

As a critical member of the CSE team you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, help expand existing business, and ensure the success of our customers via limited 1:1 engagements, and 1:many success events:

• You will be part of a team of CSMs and CSEs supporting US Majors customers needs.
• From a technical perspective, your primary responsibilities will be to guide customers in implementing Cloudflare products and services, demonstrating a nuanced understanding of complex customer environments, ensure customers see the full value in Cloudflare's products and advise on technical best practices via 1:1 engagements.
• You will take part in content creation and delivery for technical customer workshops for your area of expertise.
• Provide customers with clear proactive technical guidance and expertise across your main specialization, and in a secondary area of expertise.
• Collaborate with Customer Support, Technical Account Managers, Product, Engineering, and other teams to assist with technical escalations.
• Proactively identify opportunities for expansion for existing customers.
• Promote retention by capturing and communicating gaps in product or features.
• Contribute towards the success of the CSE organization through knowledge-sharing activities such as contributing to internal and external documentation, answering technical Q&A, and helping iterate on best practices.

Experiences might include a combination of the skills below:

• 5+ years of prior post-sales customer relationship management.
• Deep understanding of how the internet works and the desire to expand that knowledge. For example:
• Layers and protocols of the OSI model, such as TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP
• Reverse and forward proxies and the applications of both
• Security aspects of an internet property, such as Firewalls, WAFs, Bot Management, Rate Limiting, (M)TLS, Zero Trust
• Performance aspects of an internet property, such as Speed, Latency, Caching, HTTP/2, TLSv1.3
• Enjoying the adventure of troubleshooting and solving technical problems
• Understanding why Cloudflare plays an increasingly important role on today's internet
• Ability to proactively identify and solve problems then build sustainable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills.
• Technical curiosity and passion: Cloudflare is at the cutting edge of internet technology, and our CSEs are viewed as subject-matter experts. It's incumbent on us to stay up to date not only with Cloudflare's specific products, but with industry trends.
• Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, and prioritize between competing demands.

Bonus!

Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such a PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC-2

Commissions

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.

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

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: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries 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: In 2017, we created the 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. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

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!

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