Principal Solutions Architect, Public Sector Federal

<div class="content-intro"><h3>About Us</h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h3>Available Locations: Washington, D.C.</h3> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <p>As a Principal Public Sector Architect you understand your customer’s scope and mission. You have a deep understanding of key drivers for the technology decisions in large government and education and how those drivers support their goals. You are familiar with key regulatory guidelines and constraints and the unique nature of those factors on technology modernization.</p> <p>You can credibly engage across various technical domains. You have the capability to converse on risk management and have the ability to articulate the impact of risk to the organization in terms the government understands. You have an understanding of the factors and trends that are top of mind in government for CIOs, CISOs and other agency executives are thinking about to increase government services’ effectiveness, security and end user experience.</p> <p>You will help our customers build digital transformation strategies using the Cloudflare technologies and platform.. You are aware of what comes next and you can position the value proposition of the Cloudflare platform in tangible benefits to the government mission, without necessarily referring to specific individual technologi