Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Named - North California

About Us

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.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available locations: North California

What you’ll do as a

Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, Named Accounts

As a Senior Solutions Engineering Manager for US Named Accounts at Cloudflare, you will lead a high-performing, geographically distributed team of Solutions Engineers partnering with our most strategic enterprise clients. You will work side-by-side with Enterprise Sales directors, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Support to drive full-sales lifecycle technical activities and secure revenue targets. We are looking for an empathetic leader with an AI-native curiosity to streamline workflows and a player-coach mindset who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and dive into the technical details. Ultimately, you will foster a collaborative, transparent team culture dedicated to turning complex edge security, performance, and serverless challenges into scalable customer successes that help build a better Internet.

Responsibilities

Lead And Scale The Us Named Team

Oversee the hiring, technical onboarding, continuous enablement, and pre-sales performance of a highly skilled team of Enterprise Solutions Engineers across the United States.

Drive Strategic Revenue Goals

Partner directly with Named Account Sales Executives and leadership to effectively manage complex sales cycles, coordinate technical proof activities (PoCs), and accurately forecast pipeline progression.

Shadow And Coach Technical Fieldwork

Step into the field as a player-coach to shadow customer engagements, establish technical best practices, and guide your team in breaking down complex concepts into digestible business value.

Champion Cross-functional Alignment

Build deep operational relationships with Cloudflare's core Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Support teams to establish reliable escalation pathways and accelerate feature request implementations for top-tier accounts.

Facilitate Hive-mind Knowledge Sharing

Cultivate internal communication channels to ensure scalable technical solutions, architectural frameworks, and unique team discoveries are seamlessly shared across regional SE teams to prevent repeating mistakes.

Manage Team Health And Morale

Keep a constant pulse on your team's individual capacity, strengths, and career development goals, maintaining an open environment where transparent feedback and critical insights are actively welcomed.

Driving Enterprise Adoption

Accelerating the sales cycle by helping customers move past "AI hype" into production-ready, high-ROI use cases.

Technical Excellence

Building a team that is viewed by customers not just as vendors, but as trusted consultants with thorough understanding of AI and how Cloudflare can be positioned to help.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

Proven Technical Leadership

Minimum of 5+ years of experience directly managing and scaling a pre-sales Solutions Engineering team, coupled with 10+ years of related technology industry experience.

Enterprise Pre-sales Track Record

A documented history of success driving technical pre-sales within the US Enterprise or Named Accounts market, showing strong alignment with sales methodologies like MEDDPICC.

Deep Architectural Expertise

Strong foundational knowledge of fundamental Internet protocols and cloud architectures, including OSI Model layers 1-7, DNS, BGP, TCP/IP, and SSL/TLS.

Communication

Exceptional ability to demystify complex AI concepts (like fine-tuning vs. RAG, or compute costs) for C-level executives, while remaining highly technical with data scientists.

Oversee the design and delivery of high-impact technical validation events (custom demos, hackathons, and scoped PoCs).

Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise-grade standards regarding AI ethics, data privacy, governance, and latency/cost optimization.

Customer Lifecycle

Clear understanding of the entire customer lifecycle management and ensure the team is properly aligned

Cross-functional Influence

Demonstrated operational and analytical skills required to influence matrixed organizations, handle critical customer escalations, and manage distributed team resources effectively.

Ai/ml Expertise

Proven, hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), LLM orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, and MLOps pipelines.

Cloud & Architecture

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and how to deploy scalable AI workloads.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Advanced Portfolio Exposure

Familiarity with modern, emerging technical landscapes such as Zero Trust security architectures, serverless computing (Workers), and post-quantum cryptography.

Diverse Domain Background

Prior foundational experience working across overlapping technical disciplines like software engineering, product management, financial consulting, or enterprise project delivery.

Serve as the subject matter expert on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), MLOps, and data architecture.

Travel Requirement

The position requires up to 50% travel for attending meetings with prospects or customers, participating in conferences and industry events, and collaborating with Cloudflare colleagues.

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 Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $244,000.00 - $336,000.00

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S