Research Engineer, Cloudflare
Web performance and security platform
Job no longer available
Web performance and security platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have a proven track record of success driving streams of investigation to completion
- Proficiency in software development
- Must have a proven record of peer-reviewed research, standards, or equivalent in venues held by but not limited to ACM, USENIX, or IEEE
- Solid foundation in computer science, with additional specialization in privacy and one or more Cloudflare-relevant areas such as usability, human-computer interaction, networking, distributed systems, storage, operating systems, or machine learning for systems
- Excel at planning, working independently and multi-functionally, leading execution across teams to meet commitments, and deliver with predictability
- Demonstrate a track record of strong communication and technical influence. You’re as good as explaining “why” as you are “how.”
- Experience implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, methodologies, and resolving blockages
- Comfortable working on teams/projects with tight deadlines and short release cycles
Desirable
- Have completed a PhD or equivalent graduate research program in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related STEM field
- Strong ties to and participation in standards bodies such as IETF, W3C, and others
- Experience in differential privacy or multi-party computation
- Proficiency in one or more the following languages - Go, Rust, Typescript, C and/or Lua
- Experience designing and conducting user studies
- Familiarity with Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and tools such as Cloudflare’s Workers platform
- Demonstrated excellence in broad-audience technical communication (e.g. highly cited blogs, textbooks)
- Strong connections with the broader scientific community (arXiv presence, program committees, etc.)
What the job involves
- Cloudflare Research is involved with building the future of Cloudflare by tackling strategic projects that have a large impact on Cloudflare systems and the Internet at large
- Team members independently drive greenfield projects, work closely with Cloudflare product and engineering teams on shared objectives, and build strong collaborations with both external organizations and other organizations within Cloudflare to achieve common goals
- Researchers and engineers in the Research Team investigate new ideas, build new technologies, inform and execute measurement practices, and even dive into existing codebases to make meaningful changes in production environments
- Prioritization and planning are key elements as the nature of the team’s research necessarily shifts between putting ideas into practice and onto paper, while ensuring rigorous evaluations of performance, correctness, or impact
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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