Principal Threat Engineer & Systems Architect

Cloudflare; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer who thrives on tackling complex problems and rethinking threat detection mechanisms. This role spans various Cloudflare products and requires deep expertise in distributed systems and threat intelligence.

The ideal candidate will drive architectural direction, mentor teams, and design scalable solutions to enhance security across Cloudflare's global network, creating a more secure online environment.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in building systems for adversarial trends.
• Proficiency in large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on with Go/TypeScript and deploying on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural direction and technical strategy.
• Identify and dismantle technical bottlenecks.
• Design and build data pipelines for threat intelligence.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Threat intelligence

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Adversarial analysis

SQL databases

Redis

AI-assisted development

Education

15+ years in cyber security

10+ years in distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Principal Engineer who thrives on tackling complex problems and rethinking threat detection mechanisms. This role spans various Cloudflare products and requires deep expertise in distributed systems and threat intelligence.

The ideal candidate will drive architectural direction, mentor teams, and design scalable solutions to enhance security across Cloudflare's global network, creating a more secure online environment.