Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client

Overview Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client — Cloudflare Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client role at Cloudflare. Locations: Austin, TX; Lisbon, Portugal; London, United Kingdom; Seattle, WA What you’ll do We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Zero Trust team. You will be working on the Zero Trust desktop client, which protects corporate devices by securely and privately sending traffic from those devices to Cloudflare’s global network, which can apply advanced web filtering and advanced Zero Trust policies. In your role, you will predominantly be using Rust alongside platform-native languages & APIs to implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple desktop platforms. You’ll be expected to improve the code quality and to build solid, testable, and well-documented foundations. You will be most successful in this role if you have a good understanding of operating system concepts (virtual memory, multi-threading, process lifecycle, etc.) and networking concepts & protocols (VPNs, firewalls, TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.). You will also have to interact with other languages, such as Dart, Typescript, and Python. As a Software Engineer, you will be expected to make significant contributions to the design and implementation of major development projects, working closely with our product managers and other teams to implement customer-impacting features. You will work on stimulating problems born out of the scale of our deployment, and the stringent quality, performance, and security requirements of our product. Qualifications Excellent programming skills, with experience writing very high-quality and low-complexity code with thorough documentation. Strong experience writing easily-testable and thoroughly-tested code (e.g. using dependency injection with the right abstractions). Experience with systems programming and familiarity with core OS concepts of one or more desktop OSes (macOS, Windows, and Linux). Great experience using lower-level languages, such as Rust, C, C++. Very comfortable writing multithreaded, asynchronous code. Strong experience with debugging network-related problems, especially on desktop devices. An understanding of how VPN technologies work, and the trade-offs between privacy, security, and anonymity. Good understanding of, and experience with, security protocols and standards. Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written. Compensation & Benefits Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and Minnesota based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000. For New York City, Washington, Washington D.C. and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $167,000. For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000. Equity: This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision, 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 for vacation and sick leave; leave programs including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave. This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107. #J-18808-Ljbffr