Software Engineer, Oxy Team

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

About the department

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

What you’ll do

Here at Cloudflare, privacy is core to what we do. This includes giving users more control over their data, working with browser and operating system vendors to reduce cross-site tracking, and/or building first-party, privacy-focused products for customers ourselves, we’re increasingly working to improve the default state of privacy and security on the web.

On the job, you will be part of the team building our globally deployed, production-grade privacy proxy platform – the technology that powers Private Relay and Microsoft Edge Secure Network. You will also have the opportunity to work on the cutting edge of Internet privacy standards, such as Oblivious HTTP and Distributed Aggregation Protocol. We’re looking for someone excited about building – and helping us brainstorm – the future of privacy infrastructure at Cloudflare. 

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• Minimum 8 years of experience building high performance distributed code and/or building privacy solutions
• Solid foundation in computer science and software engineering with strong competencies in software design and distributed systems
• Excellent understanding of internet technologies such as TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP/S
• Experience implementing tools, process, internal instrumentation, methodologies and resolving blockages
• Ability to scope, work on and deliver initiatives independently 
• You feel that documenting your work is just as important as delivering the code
• Proven track record of mentoring junior engineers 

Responsibilities

• Working hands-on with your team and our customers to ship production ready, industry-standard, secure code
• Collaborating with engineers, researchers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
• Advocating for end-user privacy in the applications and services you build and contribute to while maintaining a high degree of reliability and stability for the applications we ship
• Mentoring junior engineers 
• Communicating effectively across the team

Bonus Points:

• Past experience in the CDN industry and/or writing code for a bare metal backend cloud provider
• Past experience contributing to a browser, web framework, proxy or distributed project
• Fluent in Rust (async Rust a plus)
• Contributions to open source Rust projects
• Delivered proven improvements to products and services by debugging and resolving network