Software Engineer Cloudforce One Legal Response

Available Locations: Hybrid Austin TX

About the team

Cloudflares mission is to help build a better internet and the Legal Response Team (LRSP) team lives at the core of that effort. The team ensures that legal teams in the company can respond to the quickly changing legal landscape of the internet with scalable tools and services. This includes services that have a direct impact on efforts to stop the spread of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) across the internet. Read more about our CSAM Scanning tool here.

About the Role

Engineers on the Legal Response Team (LRSP) team are responsible for the entire software development lifecycle for our products and services which include both internal and customerfacing software. Whether closing gaps in our legal response pipelines extending our CSAM Scanning Tool or road mapping the future of Trust & Safety and Legal Response solutions software engineers on the Legal Response team are critical to Cloudflares ability to help make the internet a better place.

This role will be based out of our Austin office.

What youll do

While the majority of our services are now written in Golang you will also work with technologies such as Rust Kafka Redis Kubernetes Terraform Temporal and PostgresSQL. We are looking for great engineers regardless of experience with any of these specific technologies.

Responsibilities include

• Designing building running and scaling tools and services that support Legal Response efforts
• Collaborating with Trust & Safety Legal and Product teams to understand goals and develop robust and scalable solutions.
• Improving system design and architecture to ensure stability and performance of the internal and customerfacing compliance services
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services including participation in on call rotations

Desirable skills and experience

• 1 to 3 years of experience building largescale software applications preferably distributed systems
• Understanding of RESTful and/or gRPC APIs and how to access data between separate systems using APIs
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Prior experience writing production ready code in Go and/or Typescript
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Familiarity with testing concepts and frameworks

Bonus

(Relevant but not required we love to learn on the job!

• Prior experience working in the Trust & Safety and Legal domain space
• Deep understanding of DNS TLS/SSL and HTTP
• Expertise in web security issues and industry standards for access control

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious largescale technology company. Were a highly ambitious largescale 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 weve equipped more than 2400 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 Cloudflares enterprise customersat 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 weve 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 privacycentric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use it is the first consumerfocused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal we dont 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 youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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