Team Lead - 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> </p> <p><strong>Available Locations:</strong> Austin, Denver, Atlanta, Washington DC, Seattle, New York, Toronto Canada preferred; other locations in North America also possible.</p> <p> </p> <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. This is 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 lead the team in building and operating secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 3<span class="il">1</span>0 cities in over <span class="il">1</span>20 countries. The team's 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.</div> <div> </div> <div>You'll organize and plan the team's long-term roadmap and day-to-day work. You'll review and sign off on technical designs, project plans, and code; providing guidance to ensure quality, resilience, and security. You'll participate in design and implementation, personally leading projects as needed. You'll support the growth and career development of your team, delegating tasks as appropriate. People management responsibilities (performance management, compensation planning, etc) may be entirely in your hands or supported by senior management, depending on your level and preferences.</div> <div><br><strong>Required skills</strong></div> <div> <ul> <li>Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication.</li> <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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)