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Principal Customer Engineer, Majors

CloudflareDistributedSolution Engineering
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Salary
€148K - €204K.
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Posted
16 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Guiding enterprise clients through technical deep dives, architecture design, and long-term adoption forms the core daily focus for this role. Team members act as trusted advisors across the entire customer lifecycle, bridging complex infrastructure requirements with scalable platform solutions while carrying a commercial quota. Candidates with a consultative mindset and a background in customer-facing technical engineering will thrive in this environment.

Operating within the go-to-market organization, professionals leverage AI-augmented workflows to handle routine administrative tasks like RFP responses and telemetry monitoring. This automation frees up time for high-value architectural work, such as planning DNS migrations, Zero Trust rollouts, and WAF tuning. Individuals who value curiosity and practical problem-solving will find strong alignment with the team's working style.

What you will do

  • Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, capture business requirements, and map complex customer infrastructure to tailored architectures.
  • Design structured migration and onboarding blueprints while serving as the primary executive and engineering contact for the client.
  • Maintain commercial accountability for platform adoption, revenue retention, and strategic cross-sell opportunities using product usage data.
  • Lead technical Quarterly Business Reviews to translate technical capabilities into return on investment for C-level executives.
  • Utilize AI agents and large language models to automate routine tasks such as security questionnaire responses and sandbox provisioning.
  • Collaborate with the enablement team to design and document standard operating procedures and architectural best practices.

What you need

  • Possess professional experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions engineering, sales engineering, or technical account management.
  • Demonstrate the ability to white-board, design, and articulate complex enterprise network and security architectures.
  • Showcase excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts into business outcomes for engineers and executives alike.
  • Bring a proven track record of operating in a quota-carrying or revenue-aligned technical environment.
  • Demonstrate technical depth in at least four domains including internet fundamentals, security, performance, AI proficiency, coding, or developer platforms.

Skills and tech stack

Questions candidates ask

What is the location policy for this role?

This position is distributed with available locations in Germany. The role may require travel up to 20 to 50 percent of the time to attend customer meetings, conferences, and industry events.

What is the salary range for this position?

The offered salary range is between €148,000 and €204,000.

What technical domains are relevant to the role?

Qualified candidates demonstrate depth in at least four areas including internet fundamentals, security, performance, AI proficiency, coding or scripting, and developer platform fluency.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Cloudflare careers page.

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