Senior Product Security Engineer

Company: Cloudflare, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

About Us At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list. 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! About the Department The Security team at Cloudflare is focused and committed to helping secure both Cloudflare and our customers. The Product Security team works closely with engineers, ensuring that security is baked into every new system or service Cloudflare launches. Our mission is to help the company launch new services as quickly as possible without compromising our security or our customers security. What you'll do We are looking for an experienced Product Security Engineer to help us in our mission to build a better internet. Part engineer, part hacker, you will work with our engineering teams to help secure our systems . - Champion security in the engineering organization. - Work alongside engineers and provide security insight from the design phase to maintenance. - Perform application security design reviews against new products and services. - Help engineers build and test security controls. - Be the voice of our most paranoid customers. - As the first product security engineer in this location, you'll be the on-site application security expert. - Build internal security tools that help fix security problems at a massive scale. Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience - Ability to investigate and understand the impact of security issues. - Strong knowledge of application security and system design. - Ability to recognize and exploit security vulnerabilities. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to distil complex security issues in to concise explanations. - Production quality software development skills in either C, C++, Golang, Rust, Javascript, or PHP. - Knowledge of cryptographic primitives and how they can be safely used. What Makes Us Special We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost. Project Athenian: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one. *******: We released ******* to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you! Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at ***************** or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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