Software Engineer, Bots + Fraud Detection (US East Coast)

Available Locations: Atlanta, NYC, Washington DC
About the department
Cloudflare's Engineering Team is home to some of the industry's top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet. Our team responsible for Bots and Fraud Detection develops cutting-edge solutions to identify and mitigate malicious bot activities, ensuring the security and integrity of online applications. The team collaborates with product and other engineering teams to implement advanced fraud detection mechanisms and employ machine learning techniques to safeguard digital assets from evolving threats in the cybersecurity landscape.
What you'll do
Join Cloudflare's Bot and Fraud Detection team to tackle real-world security challenges, leveraging massive threat intelligence data through data science and machine learning. Design, build, and scale high-performance distributed software for one of Cloudflare's fastest-growing security products. Work with global data exceeding 50 million HTTP requests per second, utilizing a tech stack that includes Go, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Lua, Kafka, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and Jupyter notebook. Make a meaningful impact in detecting and mitigating abusive HTTP L7 layer traffic worldwide.
What are we looking for?

• Proficiency in designing, integrating, and optimizing distributed data processing pipelines
• Strong coding skills in Go, Java, Python, or other high-performance languages
• Experience in constructing and managing alerting and monitoring systems for data processing pipelines
• Exceptional abilities in systems-level debugging
• Preferred background or interest in Web Security, HTTP protocols, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with advanced analytics encompassing machine learning, statistical inference, and AI.
• Curiosity and empathy
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself

Bonus Points

• Knowledge and experience with columnar database like Clickhouse.
• Experience productionalizing ML models
• Experience with cluster and configuration management systems such as Docker, Salt
• Strong web security fundamentals
• Previous experience in bot and fraud detection

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City & Washington DC based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $229,000 (multiple levels included in range)

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