Senior Application Security Engineer, Cloudflare
$168-187k
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Web performance and security platform
Open for applications
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$168-187k
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Security engineers take part in a wide variety of tasks and projects on the team
- One individual is not expected to know everything, but a working knowledge in several of the following areas is required
- Experience in securing large scale distributed systems
- Experience in designing, building and implementing systems
- Experience in assessing the security posture of systems/services
- Experience in penetration testing and providing mitigating controls
- Strong engineering background and programming experience (Python, Golang, Rust, Bash, etc.)
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with remote teams
- Results and goal-oriented
What the job involves
- The Security team at Cloudflare is focused and committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers
- The Application and Product Security team at Cloudflare is focused on and committed to securing both Cloudflare and our customers
- The Application & Product Security team is responsible for keeping our products, and platforms secure
- We are looking for a Security Engineer to help us in our mission to build a better internet
- Part engineer, part hacker, you will work with our engineering and security teams to build solutions for
- Work with engineering teams to help secure Cloudflare products and platforms
- Assess products and new feature releases through threat modeling, code review and security testing. Also provide guidance on effective countermeasures
- Contribute to security architecture/design and assist in building and rolling out processes for secure code development and deployment
- Build secure frameworks & libraries that engineering teams can use at scale
- Build internal security tools and automate processes that help fix security problems at a massive scale
- Managing and prioritizing multiple tasks in accordance with high level objectives
Our take
Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.
Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.
This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.
The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- Equal opportunity employer
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
- 401(k) plans
- Family planning and fertility program
- Gym discounts
- Commuter Benefits Program
Company values
- Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
- Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
- Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Lee Holloway
(Lead Engineer)Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.
Michelle Zatlyn
(President & COO)Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.
Matthew Prince
(CEO)Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.
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