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Senior Application Security Engineer

Hybrid or RemoteRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Oct 2024

💰 $187,000/yr($168,000/yr – $187,000/yr)

About the role

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other 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!

Available Locations: Austin, New York, San Francisco, and Washington DC.

About the Department

The Security team at Cloudflare is focused and committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers. The Application and Product Security team at Cloudflare is focused on and committed to securing both Cloudflare and our customers. The Application & Product Security team is responsible for keeping our products, and platforms secure.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Security Engineer to help us in our mission to build a better internet. Part engineer, part hacker, you will work with our engineering and security teams to build solutions for .

Work with engineering teams to help secure Cloudflare products and platforms
Assess products and new feature releases through threat modeling, code review and security testing. Also provide guidance on effective countermeasures
Contribute to security architecture/design and assist in building and rolling out processes for secure code development and deployment
Build secure frameworks & libraries that engineering teams can use at scale
Build internal security tools and automate processes that help fix security problems at a massive scale.
Managing and prioritizing multiple tasks in accordance with high level objectives

Key skill sets and Knowledge

Security engineers take part in a wide variety of tasks and projects on the team. One individual is not expected to know everything, but a working knowledge in several of the following areas is required:

Experience in securing large scale distributed systems
Experience in designing, building and implementing systems
Experience in assessing the security posture of systems/services
Experience in penetration testing and providing mitigating controls
Strong engineering background and programming experience (Python, Golang, Rust, Bash, etc.)
Strong communication skills and ability to work with remote teams
Results and goal-oriented

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

Estimated annual salary for Texas based hires $168,000 - $187,000 USD

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.

Health & Welfare Benefits