Software Engineer, Cloudforce One (Platform Abuse Response)
Posted 2 days 7 hours ago by CloudFlare
Hybrid
About Us
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.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, TX or London, UK
About the team
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better internet and the Cloudforce One Platform Abuse Engineering (PLAB) team, lives at the core of that effort. The team empowers customers with products and services to combat abuse, enables deeper coordination with our external industry anti-abuse partners, and ensures that teams in the company can respond to the quickly changing legal landscape of the internet with scalable tools and services.
About the Role
Engineers on the Platform Abuse Engineering team are responsible for the entire software development lifecycle for our products and services which include both internal and customer-facing software.
What you'll do
- Designing, building, running and scaling tools and services that support Trust and Safety efforts
- Analyzing and communicating complex technical requirements and concepts, able to identify the highest priority areas and carve a path to deliver
- Collaborating with T&S, legal and product teams to understand goals and develop robust and scalable solutions.
- Improving system design and architecture to ensure stability and performance of the internal and customer-facing compliance and anti-abuse services
- Ongoing monitoring and maintenance of production services, including participation in on call rotations
- Working closely with Cloudflare's Trust and Safety team to help make the internet a safer place
- Mentoring and guiding developers in the Platform Abuse Engineering team to help build collective knowledge and technical expertise
Desirable skills and experience
- 1 - 3 years of experience building large-scale software applications, preferably distributed systems
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services
- Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL
- Prior experience working with Go
- Excellent debugging and optimization skills
- Experience in writing well tested code
Bonus
- Prior experience working in the Trust & Safety domain space or building abuse detection systems
- Deep understanding of DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP
- Expertise in web security issues and industry standards for access control
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!
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