Cloudflare
Senior Software Engineer - Security Platform
$168K–$266K
Distributed +10 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Distributed
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX, United States
Canada
Denver, Colorado, United States
New York, New York, United States
Remote US
San Francisco, CA, United States
Seattle, WA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Washington, DC, United States - Visa sponsorship
- An offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate secure, resilient distributed infrastructure for secrets and key management, PKI, and machine/workload identity, supporting internal engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Build, operate, and support distributed secrets and key-management systems; strengthen internal PKI and machine/workload identity.
- Participate in on-call incident response and help internal developers use the systems.
- Advise on system and product architecture to ensure secure design and correct use of security services.
What they ask for
- Production software development experience in Go, C, C++, Rust, or comparable languages.
- Experience building and operating critical production services or infrastructure, including reliability work and reasoning about distributed-system failure modes.
- Hands-on production Linux/UNIX administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Security engineering experience and working understanding of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography and PKI.
Nice to have
- Experience with secrets/key management, PKI, machine/workload identity, or credential lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao, similar systems, hardware-backed security, Go, Python, Salt, or relevant open-source projects.
Pay
USD 194,000 - 266,000 annual salary (base salary); USD 168,000 - 231,000 annual salary (base salary); USD 185,000 - 254,000 annual salary (base salary); USD 185,000 - 254,000 annual salary (base salary); USD 185,000 - 254,000 annual salary (base salary); CAD 150,000 - 206,000 annual salary (base salary)
Tools
Go, C, C++, Rust, Linux/UNIX, HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao, Python
AI focus
The posting describes AI as a partner and encourages AI-native curiosity and using the latest tools, but does not specify AI-related job duties.
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