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Software Engineer (Security Platform, Internal PKI)

Remote US, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Apr 2024

💰 $240,000/yr($168,000/yr – $240,000/yr)

About the role

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!

Why you should join us

As a Security Platform Engineer at Cloudflare you will help us provide a secure infrastructure for one of the biggest online platforms in the world, handling extensive amounts of traffic at very low latency. You will be instrumental at defining the vision to help secure Cloudflare going forward.

Cloudflare firmly believes that security is an integral part of our product offerings, and the qualified candidate will directly contribute to delivering on that promise.

About the department

About the team

The Security Platform team is responsible for secrets and internal certificate management at Cloudflare, and has the mandate of building powerful and robust infrastructure and tools that enable other engineering teams to deliver secure products to our customers without sacrificing development velocity.

What you’ll do

Build and manage the PKI that provides trusted certificates to all of our internal services with fine-grained authentication and authorization controls
Create and support robust client-side automation tooling to enable the use of short-lived certificates while maintaining reliability
Promote the use of strongly-authenticated mTLS for all service-to-service communications and work with other engineering teams to develop solutions for their use cases
Communicate and execute on periodic CA rotations and migration to best practices
Contribute to the strengthening of CA and leaf certificate key protection schemes to elevate our security profile

What you’ll need

Familiarity with PKI standards and their surrounding ecosystem (X.509, TLS, etc.)
Experience running an internal or public PKI with deep understanding of their requirements and pitfalls
Worked with codebases and developed in Go or Rust

Bonus points

Familiarity with SPIFFE/SPIRE or other service identity framework/standards
Experience executing CA rotations for a reasonably large environment
Worked with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave)

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.
For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000.
For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000

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