Senior Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Security Posture Management
Web performance and security platform
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Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in Golang (or eagerness to learn)
- Experience in designing high-scale distributed systems
- Experience managing and deploying onto production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
- A security-focused mindset, required for a cross-functional product like Security Posture Management
- A natural sense of curiosity and a can-do attitude
Desirable
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Python, Go, and Unix systems will be highly regarded
- The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem
What the job involves
- Cloudflare's Engineering Team is home to some of the industry's top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet
- Our team, specifically responsible for Security Posture Management, works in close collaboration with a dedicated Product Manager and other engineering teams to develop systems to develop cutting-edge systems to build a comprehensive security posture of our customers. Have a look at some of our articles featuring our work!
- You'll be integral to making our product more robust, secure, and stable
- Our product interacts with many diverse systems which require out of the box thinking and adaptability
- We value innovation and problem-solving skills - we encourage you to bring forward problems you identify along with your best solutions
- Our team syncs are centered around addressing these challenges, focusing on short and long-term solutions for maximum business value
- As a Software Engineer in our team, you'll play a key role in designing our Security Posture Management related suite of products
- Designing efficient systems to detect security insights for our customers
- Enhancing our highly distributed and scalable event based systems
- Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our existing processes
- Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies and algorithms
- This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed
Salary benchmarks
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
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 HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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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