The role involves designing systems for Security Posture Management, enhancing scalability, solving bottlenecks, and researching new technologies.
Available Location: Lisbon, Portugal or London, UK
Role Summary
Cloudflare's Engineering Team is home to some of the industry's top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet. Our team, specifically responsible for Security Posture Management, works in close collaboration with a dedicated Product Manager and other engineering teams to develop systems to develop cutting-edge systems to build a comprehensive security posture of our customers. Have a look at some of our articles featuring our work!
Working in Our Team
You'll be integral to making our product more robust, secure, and stable. Our product interacts with many diverse systems which require out of the box thinking and adaptability. We value innovation and problem-solving skills - we encourage you to bring forward problems you identify along with your best solutions. Our team syncs are centered around addressing these challenges, focusing on short and long-term solutions for maximum business value.
Role Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer in our team, you'll play a key role in designing our Security Posture Management related suite of products. Your responsibilities will include:
Must-Have Skills
We're looking for an experienced engineer with:
Nice-to-Have Skills
Role Summary
Cloudflare's Engineering Team is home to some of the industry's top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet. Our team, specifically responsible for Security Posture Management, works in close collaboration with a dedicated Product Manager and other engineering teams to develop systems to develop cutting-edge systems to build a comprehensive security posture of our customers. Have a look at some of our articles featuring our work!
Working in Our Team
You'll be integral to making our product more robust, secure, and stable. Our product interacts with many diverse systems which require out of the box thinking and adaptability. We value innovation and problem-solving skills - we encourage you to bring forward problems you identify along with your best solutions. Our team syncs are centered around addressing these challenges, focusing on short and long-term solutions for maximum business value.
Role Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer in our team, you'll play a key role in designing our Security Posture Management related suite of products. Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing efficient systems to detect security insights for our customers.
- Enhancing our highly distributed and scalable event based systems.
- Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in our existing processes.
- Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies and algorithms.
- This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Must-Have Skills
We're looking for an experienced engineer with:
- Proficiency in Golang (or eagerness to learn)
- Experience in designing high-scale distributed systems.
- Experience managing and deploying onto production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
- A security-focused mindset, required for a cross-functional product like Security Posture Management.
- A natural sense of curiosity and a can-do attitude.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Python, Go, and Unix systems will be highly regarded.
- You do not need to have experience with any of these technologies!
- The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem
Top Skills
Apache Kafka
Go
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Unix
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