Senior Systems Engineer (Application Security)

Cloudflare, a leading internet security company, as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in Application Security. In this role, you will be responsible for our fast-growing security product portfolio, including WAF, Page Shield, Web Asset Management, and API Shield. You will work at internet scale, tackling challenging problems related to connectivity and security. Your responsibilities will include designing systems, writing code, deploying and maintaining live software-based services, supporting and growing other engineers, and staying up to date with security trends.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems and code following industry best practices, and review technical specifications and code.
• Deploy and maintain live software-based services at scale, and take regular shifts as part of the team’s On Call rota.
• Support and grow other Engineers through knowledge sharing, and keep up to date with trends in detecting current and emerging security risks.

Requirements

• You must have at least 5 years of professional experience working hands-on as a software developer
• We require proficiency with at least one of Go or Rust, plus exposure to devops tooling like but not limited to Kubernetes, Salt, Kafka or Systemd. Strong Linux / Unix fundamentals will be very helpful
• You must have experience working with distributed systems at scale. Experience with cyber security is preferred but not essential
• Cloudflare’s culture is busy and multifaceted, and people who succeed here are persistent, have a can-do attitude and a genuine willingness to assume good faith in others
• This last quality in particular requires them to be empathetic and emotionally intelligent, so you’re someone willing to take responsibility for the culture and environment that you create around you

Pay

USD 66,000 - 91,000

Benefits

• You will enjoy a competitive pay package, flexible vacation policy, paid parental leave, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.