Senior Response Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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! </span></p> </div></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Available Locations: Bengaluru, India</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Senior Response Engineer - CMDC<strong> </strong>serves as a high-tier technical lead within the proactive security team. This position is built for a practitioner who thrives at the intersection of deep protocol-level investigation and strategic technical partnership. The role is responsible for architecting responses to sophisticated threats across OSI Layers 3, 4, and 7, ensuring global customers remain resilient against large-scale DDoS attacks and complex application-layer anomalies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Acting as a primary technical anchor, this individual provides advanced assistance and strategic intelligence across Cloudflare’s most sophisticated customer environments. This involves deep mastery of the full security stack from Magic Transit (Infrastructure Protection), Advanced TCP/DNS Protection, and Magic Firewall, to application-layer defenses including the WAF, Bot Management, API Security, and Rate Limiting. The role focuses on:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technical Mentorship: Elevating the team’s collective skill set by acting as a "player-coach," providing hands-on technical guidance during live incidents and reviewing complex mitigation strategies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep-Dive Investigation: Analyzing threats using advanced internal telemetry and dashboards to engineer informed mitigation strategies, often implementing these directly on the edge for mission-critical customer traffic.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Infrastructure Tooling Evolution: Partnering closely with Product and Engineering teams to transform real-world attack data into automated defenses and enhanced platform capabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strategic Technical Communication: Serving as the authoritative technical voice during active attacks, providing clarity and architectural guidance to stakeholders.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The ideal candidate would move beyond following runbooks to creating them, transforming raw security telemetry into actionable mitigation strategies and automated defenses.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technic ... (truncated, view full listing at source)