Staff Software Engineer - Security Platform

About the role

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.
• Your 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
• 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

Pay

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. 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. For Toronto, Canada based hires: Estimated annual salary of $150,000 - $240,000 CAD.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible paid time off
• Fertility & family-forming benefits

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

• 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.