Software Engineer, Data Loss Prevention – Rust

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. 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! 

While this job can be worked almost entirely remotely, hiring is focused on the following greater metro areas (~50 miles):

• Austin, TX
• Atlanta, GA
• Champaign, IL
• Denver, CO
• New York City
• Seattle, WA
• Washington, DC
• Mexico City, MX
• Toronto, CA

Cloudflare helps build the future of the Internet. We started Cloudflare to solve one half of every IT organization’s challenge: how do you ensure the resources and infrastructure that you expose to the Internet are safe from attack, fast, and reliable. We saw that the world was moving away from hardware and software to solve these problems and instead wanted a scalable service that would work around the world.

To deliver that, we built one of the world’s largest networks. Today our network spans more than 300 cities worldwide and is within milliseconds of nearly everyone connected to the Internet. We have built the capacity to stand up to nation-state scale cyberattacks and a threat intelligence system powered by the immense amount of Internet traffic that we see.

We have recently expanded Cloudflare’s product offerings to solve the other half of every IT organization’s challenge: ensuring the people and teams within an organization can access the tools they need to do their jobs and are safe from malware and other online threats.  To do that, we released Cloudflare’s SSE and SASE services, a Zero Trust platform built on Cloudflare’s network to secure users, devices, and data in organizations of any size. Cloudflare for Teams consists of multiple products that deliver a comprehensive solution.  Part of this suite is Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention which helps protect sensitive data uniformly across all networks, SaaS applications, users and devices. 

Cloudflare’s DLP product helps customers of any size protect the data that powers their business. Whether credit card numbers, health records, trade secrets or other types of data, Cloudflare’s solution allows organizations to focus on their business and stop worrying about applying bandaids to protect their data. The solution runs in-line with Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker and Remote Browser Isolation – layering Zero Trust access control and web filtering as part of a defense-in-depth approach to data security.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a talented, experienced software engineer to join our team and help take our Data Loss Prevention product to the next level. You’ll help us make our DLP product more efficient and more accurate, while also helping us build out more features. You’ll contribute to the design and implementation of a Rust codebase that is deployed across Cloudflare’s entire edge fleet, and in Kubernetes clusters in our core datacenters.

Technologies we use

• Core edge services are written in Rust and deployed globally to 300+ data centers.
• Our REST API is also written in Rust, runs on Kubernetes, and uses Postgres as a data store.
• For service monitoring we use Prometheus and Grafana
• For service logging we use Elasticsearch and Kibana
• For product analytics we use Clickhouse and BigQuery

Skills and Knowledge we’d love for you to have

• Solid Rust coding experience (the entire product is written in Rust)
• Container orchestration (e.g. k8s)
• Distributed systems (performance, consistency, observability, resilience)
• Advanced data/document classification (e.g. statistical, ML)

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. There are multiple levels open on the team, both mid & senior level.

Senior Level (4)

• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $196,000 – $240,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $187,000 – $229,000.
• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 – $206,000.

Mid Level (3)

• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 – $198,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 – $188,000
• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 – $167,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

 

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.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers–at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use – it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal – we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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