Software Engineer - CASB

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! 

What you’ll do

In this role, you’ll help build and maintain the CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) offering, a critical new component of our Zero Trust Platform. CASB integrates with customers’ SaaS applications to detect and monitor for a wide range of security issues from misconfigurations and shadow IT, to critical data leakage and access risks. As a senior engineer on the team, you will focus on building new functionality into our API integration-based stack while also ensuring the performance and reliability of our services which ingest millions of data points each day. You’ll be joining a team of bright, knowledge-seeking engineers who are truly missionaries in solving the security challenges our customers face across their SaaS applications.

Technologies we use:

• CASB core services are written in Python with Celery as our task queue.
• Our REST API is written in Python, with Django Rest Framework.
• We utilize Postgres as our data store and Redis as our cache and message broker.
• Our scanning engine relies heavily on Kafka.
• Our frontend is written in Typescript and React.
• For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana.
• For service logging we use Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• For product analytics we use Clickhouse and BigQuery. 

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• 3+ years of professional experience building and managing reliable and performant software systems at scale, preferably with Python and/or Postgres.
• Passion for making the digital world a more secure place
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Willingness, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathy are coveted traits here!

Bonus

• Frontend programming experience in Typescript/Javascript
• Previous experience working with third-party API integrations
• Previous experience working on security products

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Colorado-based hires and Washington hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000.
• For New York City-based and California (excluding Bay Area): Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000.

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

• 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

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
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