Principal Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc

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Location
Austin, TXLondon, United Kingdom
Posted
95 days ago
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About Cloudflare, Inc

Cloudflare is a prominent cloud services and security company that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, and Zero Trust security services to millions of internet properties.

Cloudflare, Inc currently has 94 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer - Cloudforce One joins the threat operations and research team to identify and disrupt cyber threats ranging from criminal activity to nation-state sponsored attacks. This role functions as an architect and threat analyst, designing and building critical data pipelines, detection systems, and agentic AI workflows to process trillions of signals daily. You will manage technical strategy across Kubernetes, edge computing platforms like Workers and D1, and global network infrastructure while dismantling architectural debt. The position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, Go, TypeScript, and SQL databases like PostgreSQL. Key responsibilities include developing threat intelligence platforms, automating analyst tradecraft, and ensuring operational excellence through on-call rotations. You will solve complex problems involving phishing, malware distribution, and fraud prevention by leveraging tools such as Kafka, Temporal, Redis, and infrastructure-as-code via Terraform to protect the internet at scale.

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What you'll do

  • Drive architectural direction and technical strategy across Kubernetes, edge computing platforms, and the global network.
  • Identify and replace technical bottlenecks, legacy patterns, and architectural debt with scalable systems.
  • Build data pipelines to collect, enrich, and analyze threat intelligence and abuse signals at massive scale.
  • Develop agentic AI workflows and AI-assisted practices to automate threat hunting and detection engineering.
  • Incorporate a threat-informed perspective into engineering decisions to stay ahead of evolving attack techniques.
  • Translate complex security and compliance requirements into production-grade solutions across multiple internal teams.
  • Mentor engineers on code quality, system design, operational rigor, and security-first thinking.
  • Manage the operational excellence of systems including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 15+ years of cyber security experience focusing on building systems for adversarial trends and techniques.
  • Must have 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Must have hands-on proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript with experience in Kubernetes and edge computing platforms.
  • Must possess subject matter expertise in threat intelligence, adversarial analysis, or detection engineering.
  • Must be able to work across organizational boundaries to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams and codebases.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development and agentic AI workflows (preferred).
  • Experience designing data pipelines using Kafka or Temporal and working with SQL databases like PostgreSQL (preferred).
  • Authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export control laws is required.

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