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Own the full lifecycle of threat-intelligence and abuse-disruption systems on Cloudflare's Cloudforce One team

Cloudflare is hiring a Software Engineer for Cloudforce One, its threat operations and research team, to design, build, and run distributed data pipelines that expose threat intelligence (TTPs, IOCs) to analysts and customers while supporting legal/Trust & Safety response efforts. The role spans Go/TypeScript (with Rust, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, Temporal, PostgreSQL) and expects 5+ years building large-scale distributed systems, plus comfort translating legal/security requirements into production software. Austin, US, hybrid, with on-call.

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What this interview tests

  • Full SDLC ownership of a distributed threat-intelligence or abuse-detection system
  • Data pipeline design for large-scale threat signal ingestion and analysis (TTPs, IOCs)
  • Go/TypeScript production experience; familiarity with Rust, Kafka, Kubernetes, Temporal, PostgreSQL
  • Translating legal/Trust & Safety requirements into technical design
  • On-call ownership and production monitoring/maintenance
  • Mentoring teammates and promoting well-tested, modular code practices

Common question themes

Walk through a distributed system or data pipeline you owned end to end

How would you design a pipeline to surface IOCs/TTPs to both analysts and customers

Describe translating an ambiguous legal or compliance requirement into a technical solution

Tell me about an on-call incident you resolved in a production service

How have you used AI-assisted development or agentic workflows in your engineering

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