Principal Engineer
Cloudflare, Inc
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This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $154,600–$221,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $178k versus about $188k for comparable roles.
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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 104 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $185,000–$254,000 across 46 roles with salary data.
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As a Vulnerability Defense Software Engineer on the Cloudforce One team, you will join a threat operations and research group dedicated to identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from criminal activity to nation-state sponsored attacks. You will build and evolve distributed systems that translate security tradecraft into scalable, evidence-based workflows while helping practitioners assess technical risk and prioritize issues. Your daily work involves designing high-performance applications to automate investigative methods and provide actionable guidance to engineering teams. The role requires proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Rust, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, and PostgreSQL. You will also utilize the company's developer platform and incorporate AI-assisted development into your workflow. This position addresses the critical challenge of synthesizing massive amounts of network data into actionable intelligence to protect infrastructure against sophisticated cyber threats.
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