Cloudforce One Detections Engineer

Hiring Location: Austin Texas, Washington D.C., Denver, and San Francisco

About the Team

Cloudforce One is Cloudflare’s threat operations and research team, responsible for identifying and disrupting cyber threats ranging from sophisticated cyber criminal activity to nation-state sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs).  Cloudforce One works in close partnership with external organizations and internal Cloudflare teams, continuously developing operational tradecraft and expanding ever-growing sources of threat intelligence to enable expedited threat hunting and remediation.  Members of Cloudforce One are at the helm of leveraging an incredibly vast and varied set of data points that only one of the world’s largest global networks can provide.  The team is able to analyze these unique data points, at massive scale and efficiency, synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.

About the Role

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more powerful everyday.  To help fulfill this mission, we are seeking a talented Detection & Mitigation Engineer to join us in growing our Cloudforce One Organization, where you will be instrumental in building a proactive and threat intelligence-driven approach to protecting Cloudflare and its customers from sophisticated and ever-evolving global threat actors. This position requires an innovative, self-starting, and detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for analyzing, tracking, and triaging the malicious software used by sophisticated cyber threats.

As a Cloudforce One Detections Engineer, you will analyze and track adversaries with the goal of mitigating and disrupting cyber threat activity across multiple platforms, supporting both partner requests and proactive internal research. You will serve an integral role in the discovery and analysis of cyber threat adversaries, working alongside security research engineers to detect attacks and threat researchers to track them. The findings you uncover will help identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and ever-evolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base.

Our ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of previous experience in detection engineering preferably in one or more platforms spanning across endpoint and network detection response. Top candidates will have experience with triaging and analyzing common web and file formats on Windows, macOS, or UNIX-based platforms. We also would like our candidates to have experience writing code to process malware samples and interacting with APIs. As a member of the team you will be responsible for contributing to and deploying team codebases to coalesce traits of an attack. Outstanding candidates will also possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to facilitate dialogue with the Threat Research Team for reporting on malware and malware families.  You will also work both as a self-driven individual contributor and alongside a team to achieve a common goal. 

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

• Proficiency in writing detection rules using Yara, Snort, and similar detection languages
• Strong understanding of the process for evaluating and improving detection rules, including monitoring false positives (FP) and false negatives (FN).
• Proven ability to detect a wide range of cyber threats including phishing, malware command & control (C2), and other malicious content.
• Experience analyzing and decoding various payloads common in web based threat vectors.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting cybersecurity research and developing innovative detection techniques.
• Passion for analyzing attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) across different threat vectors and staying current with the latest security trends.
• In-depth understanding of the cyber threat landscape, cyber intelligence, and knowledge of threat actors and their techniques.
• Skilled at communicating actionable threat intelligence to both technical and executive-level stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 3 years of experience in detection.

Bonus Points:

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Familiarity with SQL-like syntax for querying databases
• Proven experience in tracking and analyzing cyber campaigns using technical Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
• Experience deploying detection rules across various environments, including network and endpoint systems.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location and level.

• Estimated annual salary of $110,000 - $134,000 USD

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare 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

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave