About the role
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
About the team
The Security Platform team is responsible for secrets and internal certificate management at Cloudflare, and has the mandate of building powerful and robust infrastructure and tools that enable other engineering teams to deliver secure products to our customers without sacrificing development velocity.
What you’ll do
Build secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management that runs across our edge network spanning more than 310 cities in over 120 countries
Design and benchmark proposals; identify bottlenecks in existing systems
Work with and contribute to open source projects that help accelerate our delivery
What you’ll need
Familiarity with gossip, consensus and WAL system design and protocols
Experience working with large-scale systems (>10,000 nodes) and solving associated challenges
Strong technical problem-solving skills and ability to work under design constraints
Worked with codebases and developed in Go or Rust
Bonus points
Track record of contributing to open source distributed systems projects
Strong cryptography background and able to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level
Worked with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave)
