GRC Engineer

Available Locations:Austin TX

About the role

Security is at the heart of Cloudflares mission to help build a better Internet. Anytime we push code it automatically affects the millions of Internet properties (powering websites remote teams APIs mobile apps etc.) running on our global network. Cloudflares network is one of the largest in the world spanning over 330 cities in more than 125 countries and operating within 50 milliseconds of 95% of the Internet-connected population.

The Security Governance Risk and Compliance team (GRC) is a sub-team of Security. Our job is to make sure that Cloudflare has the right controls in place to secure our systems and customer data. We work cross-functionally with almost every team at Cloudflare to implement new controls manage risk and demonstrate our security posture to auditors and customers.

What youll do

• Automation & Engineering: Develop and implement automated solutions to improve GRC processes and operations integrating with existing security engineering and AI tools. You will build modules and maintain our GRC platform and other similar initiatives.
• AI Governance: Architect and maintain a technical governance framework for the safe deployment of autonomous AI agents. This includes ensuring that agentic workflows operate within deterministic action gates and predefined risk thresholds.
• Audit & Infrastructure: Support Cloudflares security assessments (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 PCI DSS FedRAMP). You will treat Audit Readiness as a product ensuring our global edge network remains compliant through automated drift detection and self-healing configurations.
• Security Integration: Work cross-functionally with Legal People Engineering and Finance teams to integrate security into the fabric of the company moving away from gatekeeping toward a paved-road security model where compliance is the default state for every developer.

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience: Have 5 years of experience in security compliance automation or engineering functions in a fast-paced environment.
• The Builder Mindset: You are a builder and enjoy building technical solutions to complex and messy problems. Youd rather write a script to solve a problem forever than manually check a box twice.
• AI Mastery: Experience designing or implementing AI-powered automation and agentic workflows. You understand the unique risks of non-deterministic systems and how to govern them.
• Compliance-as-Code: Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Pulumi) and Policy as Code (OPA/Rego) implementation. You know how to enforce security guardrails before code is ever deployed.
• Technical Stack: Proficient in Python Go or other scripting languages for automation API interactions and data parsing. You are comfortable working with REST APIs to glue disparate security tools together. Proven experience building modern web applications including JavaScript/TypeScript and React and collaborating effectively across frontend and backend boundaries.
• The Motto: Driven by curiosity anchored by empathy and defined by a relentless ability to get things done. You seek to understand the why support your peers and ship high-quality outcomes.

Bonus Points:

• Community & Passion: Demonstrated passion for security and software development such as personal projects open-source contributions or active participation in the security research community.
• Cloudflare Native: Youve built something with our developer platform using our products (e.g. Cloudflare Workers R2 D1 or Workers AI). You understand our ecosystem because youve used it.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family including medical dental and vision insurance a 401(k) plan with company match flexible paid time off and fertility & family-forming benefits.

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!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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