Software Engineer - Security Platform

<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><strong>Available Locations: </strong>Austin, Denver, Toronto, Atlanta, Washington DC, Seattle, New York</p> <h3> </h3> <div><strong>About the team</strong><br>The Security Platform team is an infrastructure/developer tools group tasked with building and operating powerful, resilient, and secure infrastructure and systems that enable other engineering teams to deliver products to our customers efficiently and securely. We are responsible for secrets management, internal certificate authorities/PKI, machine and workload identity, and more. We are not a policy, audit, or compliance team, but rather an infrastructure engineering/software development one.<br><br><strong>What you’ll do</strong><br>You’ll build and operate secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries. Our focus is strengthening/re-architecting internal PKI and machine/workload identity. You’ll run and support the systems we build, both in an operational sense and by helping other internal developers use them. You’ll consult on the design and architecture of new systems and products to ensure they are built securely and use our services correctly.<br><br><strong>Required skills</strong></div> <div> <ul> <li>Software development and distributed systems design expertise.</li> <li>Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.</li> </ul> </div> <div><strong>Bonus nice-to-have skills</strong></div> <div> <ul> <li>Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed systems projects.</li> <li>Cryptography background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.</li> <li>Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave).</li> <li>Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar.</li> <li>Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency.</li> <li>Familiarity with Go and/or Python + Salt specifically</li> </ul> </div> <h3> </h3> <p><strong>Equity</strong></p> <p>This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.</p> <p><strong>Benefits</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Health Welfare Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>Medical/ ... (truncated, view full listing at source)