Software Engineer, Cloudforce One

Available Locations: Austin London Lisbon

Role Summary

Cloudforce One is Cloudflares threat operations and research team responsible for identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from sophisticated cyber criminal activity to nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). Cloudforce One works in close partnership with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams continuously developing operational tradecraft and expanding ever-growing sources of threat intelligence to enable expedited threat hunting and remediation. Members of Cloudforce One are at the helm of leveraging an incredibly vast and varied set of data points that only one of the worlds largest global networks can provide. The team is able to analyze these unique data points at massive scale and efficiency synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.

As a Software Engineer on this team you will own the entire software development lifecyclefrom design and architecture to deployment and monitoringfor systems that serve both threat disruption and legal response efforts. You will be responsible for translating complex legal and security requirements into robust scalable and high-performance applications that have a direct impact on making the internet better safer and more powerful every day.

Role Responsibilities

While the majority of our services are now written in Golang and TypeScript you will also work with technologies such as Rust Kafka Redis Kubernetes Terraform Temporal and PostgresSQL. We also pride ourselves in dogfooding our own products and services so you will be extensively working with Cloudflares developer platform as well. We are looking for great engineers regardless of experience with any of these specific technologies.

Responsibilities include

• Design build run and scale distributed tools and services that support both cyber threat disruption and Legal Response efforts.
• Develop critical data pipelines and services to collect analyze and expose threat intelligence data for Cloudforce One analysts and Cloudflare customers helping to identify Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
• Extend improve and maintain mission-critical Trust & Safety solutions including our CSAM Scanning Tool and other legal compliance pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with Threat Operations Trust & Safety Legal and Product teams to understand goals and translate complex technical requirements into elegant scalable solutions.
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure stability performance and maintainability of both internal and customer-facing compliance and security services.
• Analyze communicate and help prioritize complex technical concepts across teams.
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services including participation in on-call rotations.
• Mentor and guide other developers in the team helping to build collective technical expertise and promote best practices for writing well-tested modular and reusable code.

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Must-Have Skills

• At least 5 years of experience building large-scale software applications preferably distributed systems
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Prior experience writing production ready code in Go and/or Typescript
• Familiarity with Rust
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Expertise in writing well tested code
• Interest in opportunities to be a technical mentor for teammates

Nice-to-Have Skills

(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
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience building web applications using React
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Redis

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were 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 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 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 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 privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused 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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