Principal Engineer - Cloudforce One

Cloudflare
Austin
Workplace: HybridFull-timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunitySkills: ["Go","TypeScript","Kubernetes","Kafka","Temporal","PostgreSQL","Redis","D1","SQLite-at-the-edge","Edge computing"]

Lead architectural direction for Cloudforce One, combining threat intelligence, threat analysis, and disruptive engineering across Kubernetes, edge deployments, and the Cloudflare network. Shape detection pipelines and data systems processing trillions of signals daily, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable solutions that stay ahead of evolving adversaries.

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Principal Engineer - Cloudforce One

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Job Summary

Lead architectural direction for Cloudforce One, combining threat intelligence, threat analysis, and disruptive engineering across Kubernetes, edge deployments, and the Cloudflare network. Shape detection pipelines and data systems processing trillions of signals daily, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable solutions that stay ahead of evolving adversaries.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive architectural direction and technical strategy across Cloudforce One engineering, spanning services that run in Kubernetes, on the edge (Workers, D1), and across Cloudflare's global network.
  • •Identify and dismantle technical bottlenecks, legacy patterns, and architectural debt that slow down threat detection and abuse response—then replace them with systems that are faster, more reliable, and more elegant.
  • •Design and build critical data pipelines and services to collect, enrich, analyze, and expose threat intelligence and abuse signals at massive scale, helping identify TTPs and IOCs.
  • •Serve as a technical force multiplier across multiple concurrent projects—context-switch between threat intelligence platforms, abuse detection systems, legal response tooling, and customer-facing security products as priorities demand.
  • •Bring a threat-informed perspective to engineering decisions: understand adversaries' adaptations, detection rule degradations, and how to build systems that stay ahead of evolving techniques.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityRemote WorkLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of cybersecurity experience with an emphasis on building systems to present adversarial trends and techniques for internal and analyst-facing use.
  • •10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with demonstrated expertise in complex system architecture and design.
  • •Deep, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript, with production experience deploying services in Kubernetes and on edge computing platforms (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, D1/SQLite-at-the-edge).
  • •Subject matter expertise in threat intelligence, adversarial analysis, or detection engineering, including understanding the Cyber Kill Chain and attacker infrastructure at scale.
  • •Experience designing and operating critical data pipelines (Kafka, Temporal, or similar) and working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL) and caching layers (Redis) at scale.
Experience:CybersecurityThreat intelligenceCloud computingDistributed systemsEdge computing
Skills:GoTypeScriptKubernetesKafkaTemporalPostgreSQLRedisD1SQLite-at-the-edgeEdge computing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoTypeScriptKubernetesDockerKafkaPostgreSQLRedisD1SQLiteTerraformReact

Company Brief

Cloudflare
Provides a global network and cloud platform that delivers security, performance, and reliability services for web applications, APIs, and Internet properties, including CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and zero-trust security solutions.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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