Security Rules Engineer - Rust/Go & Distributed Systems

Cloudflare; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cloudflare's Engineers build and operate the software powering millions of Internet properties worldwide. We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Security Rules team, working on Rust-based microservices with Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and Kubernetes.

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable security software, participate in all stages of the development lifecycle, collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams, mentor

Qualifications

• First and foremost curiosity and critical thinking.
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience with a technology company.
• Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, or a similar systems-level language.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and debugging high volume production systems.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, Clickhouse and Memcached).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating empathy, teamwork and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the software systems that comprise Cloudflare's Application Security Product Offering such as Rate Limiting, Web Application Firewall and more.
• Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from designing and documenting systems to writing code, automated tests, and monitoring production deployments.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including security, network engineering, SRE, and product management, to design scalable solutions to difficult technical problems.
• Review work from your peers throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Mentor team members and work with support teams to ensure customer delight and bring out the best in everyone.
• Debug issues in complex systems and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of operational health.
• Work with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including Rust, Go, as well as various databases (SQL and No-SQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.

Skills

Curiosity

3+ years of experience

Rust

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Monitoring

Observability

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Memcached

Job description

Cloudflare's Engineers build and operate the software powering millions of Internet properties worldwide. We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Security Rules team, working on Rust-based microservices with Docker, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, gRPC, Kafka, Clickhouse and Kubernetes.

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable security software, participate in all stages of the development lifecycle, collaborate with security, network engineering, SRE, and product teams, mentor