Threat Intelligence Software Engineer, Cloudforce One

About Us

Cloudflare is dedicated to helping build a better Internet. We operate the world’s largest network powering millions of websites and businesses worldwide. Our intelligent global network accelerates and secures web properties, improving performance and reducing spam and attacks. Named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, Cloudflare fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. We are seeking builders who see the Internet’s flaws and work to solve them.

About the Role

Cloudforce One is a threat operations and research team at Cloudflare. We work with external organizations and internal teams to disrupt cyber threats and develop threat intelligence. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design, build, and scale tools and services that support both threat disruption and legal response efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run, and scale distributed tools and services for cyber threat disruption and platform abuse efforts.
• Develop critical data pipelines and services to collect, analyze, and expose threat intelligence data for Cloudforce One analysts and Cloudflare customers.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Product teams to understand goals and translate complex technical requirements into elegant, scalable solutions.
• Improve system design and architecture for stability, performance, and maintainability of both internal and customer-facing compliance and security services.
• Analyze, communicate, and help prioritize complex technical concepts across teams.
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on-call rotations.
• Mentor and guide other developers in the team.

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

• Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows
• At least 5 years of experience building large-scale software applications, preferably distributed systems
• At least 3 years of experience working with Threat Intelligence or in support of a Threat Intelligence platform
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Prior experience writing production ready code in Go and/or TypeScript
• Familiarity with Rust
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Expertise in writing well tested code
• Interest in opportunities to be a technical mentor for teammates

Bonus Points

• Deep understanding of DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP
• Expertise in web security issues and industry standards for access control
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience building web applications using React
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Redis

Compensation

Equity: This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

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