Associate Solutions Engineer

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 location(s): Sydney, Australia

About the Role

The Cloudflare Associate Solution Engineering Program is a 12-month rotational experience designed to launch your career in pre-sales engineering. You'll combine technical depth, customer problem-solving, and business acumen to make Cloudflare's technology accessible and valuable for customers across Asia-Pacific.

You'll complete three 4-month rotations across our regional customer bases (Greater China, ANZ, and ASEAN), working alongside experienced Solution Engineers to deliver technical demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concepts. At the end of the program, you'll join one of the regional teams as a Solution Engineer.

In a typical week, you will:

• Shadow customer calls and technical deep-dives with Enterprise and Strategic accounts
• Build and deliver product demonstrations tailored to customer use cases (web security, performance, serverless computing)
• Participate in workshops on Cloudflare technologies: Workers, Zero Trust, DNS, DDoS mitigation, WAF
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to solve customer technical questions
• Document customer requirements and translate them into solution architectures
• Rotate between GCR, ANZ, and ASEAN customer teams every 4 months
• Contribute to internal tooling, demo environments, or solution accelerators

It is critical that you:

• Have graduated within the past 2 years (or have equivalent demonstrated technical experience through boot camps, self-study, or professional work)
• Can explain core networking concepts (e.g., how DNS resolution works, what happens when you visit a URL, difference between TCP/UDP)
• Are available to start in July 2026 and commit to 12 months including regional rotations
• Communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)
• Can manage multiple concurrent projects with competing deadlines
• Are authorized to work without sponsorship

It would be awesome if you had:

• Internship or project experience in a customer-facing, consulting, or technical sales environment
• Proficiency in Mandarin, Cantonese, or Bahasa Indonesia (for serving regional customers)
• Scripting skills in Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar
• Hands-on experience with web technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, HTTP APIs, or cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Demonstrated ownership of technical projects (GitHub portfolio, conference talks, open-source contributions)

Technologies you'll work with:

Cloudflare's edge network, Workers (serverless), Zero Trust security, DNS/CDN, DDoS mitigation, WAF, API Gateway, R2 storage, Stream, Images

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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

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