Cloudflare DDoS Engineer

1 week ago

San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare Inc Full time

About Us

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.

Available locations:

Hybrid - Austin, US | Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK

Remote - US

About the team

The mission of the DDoS engineering team at Cloudflare is to make DDoS attacks a thing of the past. We create Internet-scale systems that analyze and mitigate the largest DDoS attacks in the world. Our systems operate across one of the largest networks on the Internet and protect nearly 20% of all websites.

Because of our scale and reach, we're consistently on the front line in the battle against new and emerging threats, and the work we do on this team has an outsized impact in helping Cloudflare build a better Internet.

Responsibilities

  1. Build and enhance the software that automates DDoS detection and mitigation
  2. Analyze data and identify patterns to strengthen our attack detection and mitigation
  3. Build and enhance the internal tooling that supports our systems
  4. Monitor telemetry to improve performance and ensure system health
  5. Communicate your knowledge and expertise of DDoS within the broader organization
  6. Provide last-line support for SOC and Escalation Engineers, which can require off-hours availability in extraordinary cases

Requirements

  • Knowledge of core Internet protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC)
  • Knowledge of common types of network and application-layer DDoS attacks
  • Knowledge of common web application architectures
  • Experience with Rust, C, Go, or other systems languages
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience analyzing large time-series datasets, preferably including SQL
  • Experience with the Linux network stack, and specifically eBPF
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana
  • Experience with SaltStack and Kubernetes

A higher-education degree is not required for this role.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo :

We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers at no cost.

Athenian Project :

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

We released to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.

This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever.

We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St.

San Francisco, CA 94107.

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