Software Engineer, Cloudflare
Email Security
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
- ~5+ years of experience designing and implementing software systems
- Advanced ability to design and implement software systems in Java
- Someone who enjoys security work focused on email detections that identify and protect our users
- Distributed systems experience in a Unix environment
Desirable
- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline
- Strong software engineering skills and substantial expertise in additional programming and scripting languages: Rust, Python, and shell scripting
- Experience with SMTP
- Significant experience in networking, security, cryptography, malware analysis, data analysis, high-reliability clusters, statistics
- Detailed understanding of object-oriented design practices
- Expert who specializes in big data analysis and design and construction of large-scale multi-tier systems using open-source technologies
- Recent development or architectural leadership experience with large-scale data systems, streaming analytics
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery environments and agile methodologies
- Experience developing, deploying, maintaining applications using public cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
What the job involves
- Cloudflare’s Cloud Email Security (CES) service builds advanced technology focused on the source of 95% of data breaches on the internet: phishing
- Hunting for bad actors on the internet is an intellectual and technical challenge. We hunt at scale with web crawling, machine learning, computer vision, petabytes of data, and a global network of sensors
- All of this technology delivers a comprehensive email, network and web protection layer around each of our customers. Customers know that with Cloudflare CES solution deployed their users won’t enable a hacker to gain a foothold that results in a breach of their systems
- Come and join an engineering team that builds extensible, reliable, scalable web-based, and data processing applications that our customers count on every second of the day
- Create the product’s subsystems and key components by applying up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering to define, design and create world-class implementations
- Collaborate with other senior engineers to improve the overall system at the architectural, design, and implementation levels
- Design and implement new features for our cloud-based email gateway solution that empowers Fortune 1000 customers
- Design and implement forward-looking portions of the system to execute a long-term product vision
- Work with large scale data systems in both online/streaming and offline/batch fashions
- Design and implement revisions to areas of the system to enhance key features such as performance, reliability, scalability, or add new functionality
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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