Senior Software Engineer - Zero Trust Client (Windows networking)

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! 

Locations: Remote in US or Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec or Ontario)

What you'll do

We’re looking for a Senior Windows Software Engineer to join our Zero Trust team. You will be working on the Zero Trust desktop client, which protects corporate devices by securely and privately sending traffic from those devices to Cloudflare’s global network, which can apply advanced web filtering and advanced Zero Trust policies.

In your role, you will predominantly be using Rust along platform-native languages & APIs to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple desktop platforms. You’ll be expected to improve the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented foundations. You will be most successful in this role if you have a good understanding of Windows internals (virtual memory, multi-threading, process lifecycle, kernel programing, system APIs, etc.) and networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.). You will also have to interact with other languages, such as Swift, C#, C, and python.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to make significant contributions to the design and implementation of major development projects, working closely with our product managers and other teams to implement customer-impacting features. You will work on stimulating problems born out of the scale of our deployment, and the stringent quality, performance, and security requirements of our product.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience

• In-depth knowledge of Windows internals, kernel-mode programming, and network protocols
• Experience in low-level Windows driver development, ideally network drivers
• Excellent programming skills, with experience writing very high-quality and low-complexity code with thorough documentation.
• Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code (e.g. using dependency injection with the right abstractions)
• Great experience using lower-level languages, such as Rust, C, C++
• Very comfortable writing multithreaded, asynchronous code
• Strong experience with debugging network-related problems
• An understanding of how VPN technologies work, and the trade-offs between privacy, security, and anonymity
• Good understanding of, and experience with, security protocols and standards
• Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written

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