Remote Software Engineer, Distributed Denial of Service

Summary

Join the DDoS engineering team at Cloudflare and contribute to making DDoS attacks a thing of the past by enhancing automation for detecting and blocking attack traffic.

Requirements

• Knowledge of core Internet protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC)
• Knowledge of common types of network and application-layer DDoS attacks
• Knowledge of common web application architectures
• Experience with Rust, C, Go, or other systems languages
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Experience analyzing large time-series datasets, preferably including SQL
• Experience with the Linux network stack, and specifically eBPF
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana
• Experience with SaltStack and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the software that automates DDoS detection and mitigation
• Analyze data and identify patterns to strengthen our attack detection and mitigation
• Build and enhance the internal tooling that supports our systems
• Monitor telemetry to improve performance and ensure system health
• Communicate your knowledge and expertise of DDoS within the broader organization
• Provide last-line support for SOC and Escalation Engineers, which can require off-hours availability in extraordinary cases