Threat Intelligence Engineer - Scale Secure Internet

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and stock program

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Spending Accounts

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

On-demand mental health support

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Short and Long Term Disability

Life & Accident Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Parental / maternity leave

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Software Engineer for Cloudforce One in Austin to design, build, and operate scalable threat-disruption and compliance tools. You will translate complex security requirements into robust software across Golang, TypeScript, and other modern technologies.

You will collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Legal, and Product teams, own data pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring colleagues to improve code quality and delivery speed.

Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows
• At least 5 years of experience building large-scale software applications, preferably distributed systems
• At least 3 years of experience working with Threat Intelligence or in support of a Threat Intelligence platform
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
• Prior experience writing production ready code in Go and/or Typescript
• Familiarity with Rust
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Expertise in writing well tested code
• Interest in opportunities to be a technical mentor for teammates

Responsibilities

• Design, build, run, and scale distributed tools and services that support both cyber threat disruption and platform abuse efforts.
• Develop critical data pipelines and services to collect, analyze, and expose threat intelligence data for Cloudforce One analysts and Cloudflare customers, helping to identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
• Collaborate closely with Threat Intelligence, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Product teams to understand goals and translate complex technical requirements into elegant, scalable solutions.
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure stability, performance, and maintainability of both internal and customer-facing compliance and security services.
• Analyze, communicate, and help prioritize complex technical concepts across teams.
• Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on-call rotations.
• 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.

Skills

AI-assisted development

Distributed systems

Threat intelligence

RESTful APIs

gRPC

SQL

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Debugging

Testing

Mentoring

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

Terraform

Temporal

PostgreSQL

React

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Software Engineer for Cloudforce One in Austin to design, build, and operate scalable threat-disruption and compliance tools. You will translate complex security requirements into robust software across Golang, TypeScript, and other modern technologies.

You will collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Legal, and Product teams, own data pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring colleagues to improve code quality and delivery speed.