Available Locations: Austin, New York, and Washington DC.

About the Department

The Security team at Cloudflare is focused and committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers. The Application and Product Security team at Cloudflare is focused on and committed to securing both Cloudflare and our customers. The Application & Product Security team is responsible for keeping our products, and platforms secure.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Security Engineer to help us in our mission to build a better internet. Part engineer, part hacker, you will work with our engineering and security teams to build solutions for .

• Work with engineering teams to help secure Cloudflare products and platforms
• Assess products and new feature releases through threat modeling, code review and security testing. Also provide guidance on effective countermeasures
• Contribute to security architecture/design and assist in building and rolling out processes for secure code development and deployment
• Build secure frameworks & libraries that engineering teams can use at scale
• Build internal security tools and automate processes that help fix security problems at a massive scale. 
• Managing and prioritizing multiple tasks in accordance with high level objectives

Key skill sets and Knowledge

Security engineers take part in a wide variety of tasks and projects on the team. One individual is not expected to know everything, but a working knowledge in several of the following areas is required: 

• Experience in securing large scale distributed systems
• Experience in designing, building and implementing systems
• Experience in assessing the security posture of systems/services
• Experience in penetration testing and providing mitigating controls
• Strong engineering background and programming experience (Python, Golang, Rust, Bash, etc.)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with remote teams
• Results and goal-oriented

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

• Estimated annual salary for Texas based hires $168,000 - $187,000 USD

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