Senior Solutions Architect, APJC (Developer Platform) - India Market

The role

You will lead the regional technical strategy for Developer Platform customers and partners across APJC. You will design architectures, validate technical approaches, and transition production workloads onto Cloudflare.

What you will do

• Guide the technical strategy for Developer Platform customers and partners across the region.
• Transform business, application, security, and operational requirements into secure, scalable architectures on Cloudflare.
• Partner with engineering executives and senior stakeholders to advise on application modernization and AI architecture.
• Lead architecture discovery sessions, technical workshops, proofs of concept, and design reviews.
• Establish reference architectures, architectural standards, and governance patterns.
• Build, review, and troubleshoot representative applications and integrations.
• Serve as a Developer Platform technical leader through presentations and written guidance.
• Mentor fellow solutions architects and technical colleagues.
• Build feedback loops between customers, field teams, and product leaders.

Required qualifications

• Background in solutions architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or a related customer-facing technical role.
• Professional fluency in English and a major language spoken in India.
• Track record of owning complex technical strategies involving developers, infrastructure, security, and executives.
• Deep working knowledge of distributed application architecture including compute, storage, networking, security, reliability, and observability.
• Software-development experience, including the ability to build or review production-quality applications and proofs of concept.
• Understanding of modern web technologies, serverless/cloud-native architectures, and modern software-delivery practices.
• Knowledge of at least one major public cloud platform.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Excellent written, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to travel up to 30%, primarily within APJC, including India.

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating production applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
• Experience designing AI inference, agentic, retrieval-augmented generation, or data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with customers, technology partners, or developer communities in India.
• Background in public speaking, technical writing, open-source contribution, or community building.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certifications.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, OR equivalent practical experience.

About the company

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and Internet properties. The company protects and accelerates Internet applications without adding hardware or changing code.