Software Engineer

Cloudflare

Software Engineer developing and maintaining applications for threat operations at Cloudflare. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure cybersecurity and legal compliance.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsDNSGoGRPCKafkaKubernetesPostgresReactRedisRustSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience with AI-assisted development and 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
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
Prior experience working in the Trust & Safety and Legal domain space (nice-to-have)
Deep understanding of DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP (nice-to-have)
Expertise in web security issues and industry standards for access control (nice-to-have)
Experience with Kafka (nice-to-have)
Experience building web applications using React (nice-to-have)
Experience with Kubernetes (nice-to-have)
Experience with Redis (nice-to-have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
Global Travel Medical Insurance
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Life & Accident Insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-assisted developmentagentic AI workflowslarge-scale software applicationsdistributed systemsRESTful APIsgRPC servicesSQLPostgreSQLGoTypescript

Soft Skills

debugging skillsoptimization skillstechnical mentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingprioritizationleadershipteamworkbest practices