Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Security Platform

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better

Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet

properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates

any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties

powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request.

As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast

Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders

who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct

to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on

iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how

small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that

AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available

Locations​

• Atlanta, US
• Austin, US
• Denver, US
• New York, US
• Toronto, Canada

• Washington DC, US
• Seattle, WA
• Remote candidates within North America will also be considered.

The Security Platform team is an infrastructure/developer tools group tasked with building and

operating powerful, resilient, and secure infrastructure and systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver products to

our customers efficiently and securely. We are responsible for secrets management, internal certificate authorities/PKI, machine

and workload identity, and more. We are not a policy, audit, or compliance team, but rather an infrastructure engineering/software

development one.

Responsibilities​

• You’ll build and operate secure and resilient distributed systems for

secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries. Our focus is

strengthening/re-architecting internal PKI and machine/workload identity. You’ll run and support the systems we build, both in an

operational sense and by helping other internal developers use them. You’ll consult on the design and architecture of new systems

and products to ensure they are built securely and use our services correctly.

• This role may require flexibility to be

on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and

Experience​

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience
• Software development and distributed systems design

expertise

• Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance

Bonus

Points​

• Bonus / nice-to-have skills
• Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed

systems projects

• Cryptography background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level

• Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave)
• Familiarity with

HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar

• Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency
• Familiarity with Go and/or

Python + Salt specifically

For New York City, Washington D.C., and Seattle based hires: Estimated annual salary of 185,000 -

275,000 USD.

• For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of 168,000 - 250,000 USD.

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.

We’re not

just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re 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, we've equipped more than 2,400 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

Cloudflare’s 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, we've 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. Here’s the deal -

we don’t 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.

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.

This position may require access to information protected

under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may

be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship

for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and

inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's,

perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression,

sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care

status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled

Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals

with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable

accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format,

using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a

job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.