About this opportunity
Cloudflare lists this Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Security Platform opportunity in austin, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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. Our 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.
Qualifications
8+ years of relevant professional experience
Software development and distributed systems design expertise
Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance
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
Bonus Points
Bonus / nice-to-have skills
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
Compensation
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.
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.
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
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.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
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Worksite address
austin, TX, 78716, US
Who can apply
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