Available Locations: Austin Texas
About the Team
Cloudforce One is Cloudflare’s threat operations and research team, responsible for identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from sophisticated cyber criminal activity to nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). Cloudforce One works in close partnership with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams, continuously developing operational tradecraft and expanding ever-growing sources of threat intelligence to enable expedited threat hunting and remediation. Members of Cloudforce One are at the helm of leveraging an incredibly vast and varied set of data points that only one of the world’s largest global networks can provide. The team is able to analyze these unique data points, at massive scale and efficiency, synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.
About the Role
Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more powerful everyday. To help fulfill this mission, we are seeking a talented Security Engineer to join us in growing our Cloudforce One Organization, where you will be instrumental in building a proactive and threat intelligence-driven approach to protecting Cloudflare and its customers from sophisticated and ever-evolving global threat actors. This position requires an innovative, self-starting, and detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for identifying, tracking, and assessing sophisticated cyber threats.
As a Cloudforce One Security Engineer, you will develop critical services to monitor and disrupt cyber threat activity across multiple platforms, supporting both client requests and proactive internal research. You will serve an integral role in the discovery and analysis of cyber threat adversaries, building pipelines to collect and expose this data for our Cloudforce One analysts and Cloudflare customers. The services you create will help identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and ever-evolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base. Lastly, you will work in close collaboration with team members to develop new and innovative ways to present and interact with Cloudflare's unique insights.
We are hiring for an entry-level software engineer position; however, strong candidates should be able to write reliable code, preferably in Golang or TypeScript. As a member of the team you will be responsible for contributing to and deploying team codebases to coalesce traits of an attack. You will also work both as a self-driven individual contributor and alongside a team to achieve a common goal.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Software development skills, with preferred experience programming in Go
- Focus on writing modular code to enhance maintainability, scalability, and code reuse
- Understanding of APIs and how to access data between separate systems using APIs
- Experience interacting with SQL (e.g., Postgres) or NoSQL (e.g., Redis)
- Working knowledge of OSI Layers and familiarity with the common protocols for each layer
- A passion for tracking and analyzing cyber campaign TTPs and technical Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Ability to understand the latest security trends disclosed by security threat reports
Bonus Points
- Ability to stand up infrastructure in a containerized environment (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) technology
- Familiarity with testing concepts and frameworks
- Understanding of cyber security fundamentals
- Familiarity with regular expressions and their practical application in tracking malicious activity
- BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Security or Information Systems
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Texas based hires: Estimated annual salary of $115,000 - $128,000
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave