Systems Engineer - Data Security
Hybrid · Austin, TX · 3+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Hybrid · Austin, TX
About Cloudflare
- 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.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
About the role
- In this role, you’ll help build and maintain Data Security products as a Software Engineer.
- These products empower customers to gain deep visibility into Cloud/SaaS security opportunities and into trends in their network traffic and product use.
- As an engineer on the team, you will focus on building new functionality into our APIs and distributed code while ensuring the performance and reliability of our services which ingest millions of data points each day.
Responsibilities
- Help build and maintain Data Security products as a Software Engineer
- Focus on building new functionality into APIs and distributed code
- Ensure the performance and reliability of services which ingest millions of data points each day
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience building and managing reliable and performant software systems at scale, preferably with technologies like: Go, Python, Postgres
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- Frontend programming experience in Typescript/Javascript
- Previous experience working with third-party API integrations
- Previous experience working on security products
Skills
- Go
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Cloudflare Workers
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Postgres
- Redis
- Kafka
- React
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