Principal Systems Engineer - Application Security / Threat Detection Cloudflare, Inc. - Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.
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.
Available Locations: London
About The Team
We are a group of around 100 Engineers responsible for Cloudflare’s fast-growing security product portfolio (WAF, Page Shield, Bot detection, API Shield and DDoS protection). You’ll be working with custom components created in an engineering-driven and pragmatic way - our code is well-tested and documented and uses modern languages like Go and Rust.
Application Security is the single biggest contributor to Cloudflare’s annual revenue and has ambitious goals for growth. This means you’d be joining a high-profile part of the business that can really accelerate and support your career.
About You
You’re a high-performing Senior Staff or Principal Engineer in a technical leadership role in cyber security. You have a strong background in threat detection and have contributed to industry groups like OWASP and / or conferences like S&P, CCS, USENIX Security or NDSS.
The scope of this role involves working across multiple teams so you will be excited by both having impact through other Engineers and making deep individual contributions to our codebase.
Cloudflare’s culture is busy and multifaceted, and people who succeed here are persistent, have a can-do attitude and a genuine willingness to assume good faith in others. This role is as senior as it gets for an Engineering IC and this means you will need to take a more than average share of responsibility for the culture that you create around you.
What You’ll Do
Provide expert-level guidance across multiple engineering teams in detecting current and emerging security risks to web applications.
Own an engineering roadmap and work with Engineering Managers and Engineering Directors in getting buy-in from teams and senior stakeholders.
Write code following bleeding edge industry best practices and provide leadership in following these.
Mentor and grow other Engineers.
Required Skills and Experience
Extensive experience of cyber security and in particular detecting emerging threats (e.g. OWASP Top Ten).
Experience with threat detection based on Machine Learning.
Very skilled hands-on writing lean and effective code according to modern best practices.
Skilled deploying and maintaining live software-based services at great scale (e.g. 10m+ requests / second, 100m+ users).
Experience leading engineering teams, e.g. as a Tech Lead or in a Systems Architect role.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
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