Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Security Platform
Cloudflare2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $303k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management across Cloudflare’s global network.
- Strengthen and re-architect internal PKI and machine/workload identity systems.
- Provide operational support for systems and help internal developers use the services correctly.
- Consult on the design and architecture of new systems and products to ensure secure implementation and proper use of platform services.
- Participate in on-call support outside standard working hours as needed.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Expertise in software development and distributed systems design.
- Strong security background focused on implementation rather than policy or compliance.
- Preferred: contributions to open source security or distributed systems projects.
- Preferred: cryptography experience, including work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.
- Preferred: experience with HSMs, TPMs, or platform TEEs such as AMD SEV, Intel SGX, or Apple Secure Enclave.
- Preferred: familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao, or similar tools.
- Preferred: Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency and familiarity with Go and/or Python with Salt.
Benefits
- Medical/Rx, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming, mental-health, employee-assistance, and global travel medical benefits.
- Short- and long-term disability, life and accident insurance, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an employee stock participation plan.
- Flexible paid time off and parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave programs.
- Equity plan participation is available.
- Positions are available in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Canada; candidates progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a Cloudflare office or hub.
- Applications are accepted until November 25, 2026.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare builds a global network that provides CDN, DDoS mitigation, DNS, Zero Trust security, and developer/edge computing tools for organizations of all sizes. It sells subscriptions to its cloud-based platform and usage-based services that protect and accelerate web sites, APIs, and corporate networks, plus serverless apps via Workers. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: NET).