Software Engineer - Cloudflare One

Available Locations: Bengaluru
About UsAt Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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!
What you'll do
You will be on a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building critical features in Cloudflare One's Zero Trust security platform. Throughout this product suite, we have offerings ranging from ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Architecture), to SWG (Secure Web Gateway), CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), and many more that encompass a holistic platform to help secure some of the world's most important and forward-looking organizations. This team spearheads a variety of innovative new product features across the whole product portfolio, and directly collaborates with many engineering teams while doing so.
As an engineer on the team, you bring passion for building mission critical products and features, while thinking about the bigger picture of how your code will impact customers and advance their needs. You thrive in a fast-paced iterative engineering environment and have experience in delivering scalable distributed systems. You'll be joining a team of bright, knowledge-seeking engineers who are truly missionaries in solving the security and networking challenges for our customers.
Technologies we use:

• Core backend and API services are written in Go, Rust, and Python.
• Our frontend is written in Typescript and React.
• We utilize Clickhouse, Postgres, and TimescaleDB as our data stores.
• Redis is our cache.
• Kafka plays a large role at Cloudflare and this team with message streaming.
• For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana.
• For service logging we use Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience:

• 3+ years of professional experience building and managing reliable and performant software systems at scale, preferably with technologies like: Go, Rust, Python, Typescript, Postgres, Clickhouse, Kafka, etc.
• Passion for making the digital world a more secure place
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Willingness, curiosity, and enthusiasm to learn new programming languages, technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Caring and empathy are coveted traits here!

Bonus

• Frontend programming experience in Typescript/Javascript
• Previous experience working on security products