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

About the Role

As Senior Solutions Architect for the Developer Platform, you will own the regional technical strategy for Cloudflare’s developer-focused customer and partner engagements. You will work with engineering leaders, architects, and developers to define architectures, validate technical approaches, and move production workloads onto Cloudflare.

This is a senior individual-contributor role combining hands-on architecture, executive influence, and regional technical leadership. You will report to the Director of Developer GTM, APJC.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Strategy: Own the technical strategy for Developer Platform customers and partners in the APJC region.
• Architecture Design: Translate business, application, and security requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures.
• Field Engagement: Lead architecture discovery, technical workshops, proofs of concept, and design reviews.
• Executive Advisory: Advise engineering executives on application modernization, distributed systems, AI architecture, and platform strategy.
• Standardization: Establish reference architectures and governance patterns for reuse across the APJC field organization.
• Hands-on Development: Remain technical by building, reviewing, and troubleshooting representative applications and integrations.
• Leadership: Mentor solutions architects and serve as a regional technical leader through public speaking and internal enablement.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 10+ years in solutions architecture, software engineering, or technical consulting.
• Language Skills: Professional fluency in English and one major Indian language is required to lead executive discussions.
• Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of distributed application architecture (compute, storage, networking, security, observability).
• Development Skills: Hands-on experience with modern web technologies and at least one programming ecosystem (preferably JavaScript or TypeScript).
• Cloud Expertise: Strong understanding of serverless/cloud-native architectures and at least one major public cloud platform.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 30%, primarily within APJC and India.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience building production applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
• Experience designing AI inference, agentic, or RAG applications.
• Experience working with developer communities in India.
• A record of public speaking, technical writing, or open-source contributions.