Vulnerability Defense Software Engineer, Cloudforce One
$150k - $206k • Hybrid
Posted 9h ago
Job Location
Hybrid
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Cloudforce One is Cloudflare’s threat operations and research team, focused on identifying and disrupting cyber threats from criminal activity to nation-state sponsored attacks. The team collaborates with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams to develop operational tradecraft and expand threat intelligence for expedited threat hunting and remediation. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build and evolve systems that assist security practitioners in assessing technical risk, investigating complex systems, prioritizing issues, and delivering actionable guidance to engineering teams. You will translate complex security requirements and investigative methods into robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that contribute to a safer and more powerful internet.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, run, and scale distributed tools and services that translate security tradecraft into scalable, evidence-based systems and workflows.
- Partner with security practitioners to understand workflows, bottlenecks, and opportunities for automation.
- Improve system design and architecture to ensure stability, performance, and maintainability of both internal and customer-facing services.
- Analyze, communicate, and help prioritize complex technical concepts across teams.
- Mentor and guide other developers in the team, helping to build collective technical expertise and promote best practices for writing well-tested, modular, and reusable code.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts such as threat modeling, attack techniques, trust boundaries, exploitability, and defensive controls.
- Familiarity with incident response workflows, network containment, and remediation.
- Practical experience in vulnerability research/exploit development and translating findings into actionable mitigations.
- Experience with AI-assisted development and designing agentic AI workflows.
- At least 5 years of experience building large-scale software applications, preferably distributed systems.
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
- Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL.
- Ability to independently define and deliver solutions in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Prior experience writing production-ready code in Go and/or TypeScript.
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills.
- Expertise in writing well-tested code.
- Interest in opportunities to be a technical mentor for teammates.