Principal Engineer - Cloudforce One

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 55 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: No
Ghost-job risk at Cloudflare: high
Hiring momentum: 494 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-09-27

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About this role

The Principal Engineer for Cloudforce One at Cloudflare will lead the architectural direction and technical strategy for threat operations and research. This role involves redesigning detection pipelines, building data systems, and collaborating with various teams to enhance threat intelligence and response capabilities. The engineer will also mentor others and develop AI workflows to improve threat hunting and detection processes.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5

benefits: 5/5
freshness: 1/5
career value: 5/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 0/5

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What you need

15+ years of cyber security experience
10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
Deep proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript
Experience deploying services in Kubernetes and on edge computing platforms
Subject matter expertise in threat intelligence and adversarial analysis
Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries

Nice to have

Experience in the Trust & Safety or platform abuse domain
Proficiency in writing detection rules using YARA, Snort, or similar
Experience analyzing adversary TTPs across web-based threat vectors
Familiarity with Rust
Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices

What you get

Medical/Rx Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

Worth weighing

Role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours
No specific salary or equity figures provided
Position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws

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Listed by Cloudflare on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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