Senior Software Engineer, Zero Trust Client

CloudflareSan Francisco, CA
$185,000 - $254,000Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Windows 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.

Requirements

  • Good understanding of Windows internals (virtual memory, multi-threading, process lifecycle, kernel programming, system APIs, etc.) and networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, QUIC, H/3, proxying, etc.).
  • Experience interacting with other languages, such as Swift, C#, C, and python.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising a team's technical bar through code review and knowledge sharing.
  • Experience owning technical designs end-to-end, writing specs and design docs that coordinate work across engineers and teams.
  • A track record of debugging and resolving complex issues that span team and system boundaries.
  • Empathetic, proactive, and constructive communication skills, verbal and written.

Nice To Haves

  • In-depth knowledge of Windows internals, kernel-mode programming, and network protocols.
  • Experience in low-level Windows driver development, ideally network drivers.
  • 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).
  • Great experience using lower-level languages, such as Rust, C, C++.
  • Very comfortable writing multithreaded, asynchronous code.
  • Strong experience with debugging network-related problems.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Implement high-performance networking code that runs on multiple desktop platforms, predominantly using Rust along platform-native languages & APIs.
  • Improve code quality and build solid, testable, and well-documented foundations.
  • Make significant contributions to the design and implementation of major development projects.
  • Work closely with product managers and other teams to implement customer-impacting features.
  • Work on stimulating problems born out of the scale of our deployment, and the stringent quality, performance, and security requirements of our product.
  • Mentor engineers and raise a team's technical bar through code review and knowledge sharing.
  • Own technical designs end-to-end, writing specs and design docs that coordinate work across engineers and teams.
  • Debug and resolve complex issues that span team and system boundaries.

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
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life & Accident Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Participation Plan
  • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
  • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
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