Senior Product Security Engineer

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX

About the role

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you will lead security assessments and vulnerability operations for Cloudflare’s core software products. In this role, you will analyze system architecture, threat model new features, and ensure that product-related security findings are accurately triaged, routed to the correct engineering owners, and mitigated within our SLAs.

On any given day, you might conduct a deep-dive security review on a new feature design, triage a complex bug bounty submission, or work directly with engineering teams to resolve vulnerabilities from different sources like bug bounties, SAST, fuzzing and penetration tests. You will also work autonomously to identify areas where our manual processes slow down. You will write code and integrate AI/LLM solutions to automate initial triage and data enrichment, building tools that help the team handle security findings at scale. In short, your work will sit at the intersection of Product Security, Vulnerability Operations, and internal AI Tooling. Ideally, you have experience in conducting academic/vulnerability research with a focus on systems security.

Responsibilities

Autonomously Drive AI Security Innovation: Proactively identify gaps in our current capabilities and independently architect, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions to automate code analysis, optimize triage, and scale Product Security workflows.

Security Architecture & Threat Modeling: Lead deep-dive security reviews and complex threat modeling sessions across distributed systems, embedding strict security requirements into product designs before development begins.

Product-Focused Vulnerability Management: Own the lifecycle of product security findings. Ensure vulnerabilities are accurately triaged, mapped to the correct engineering owner, and mitigated in alignment with established SLAs.

Bug Bounty Leadership: Oversee the technical triage and validation of Cloudflare’s external Bug Bounty program, prioritizing submissions based on real-world exploitability and business risk.

Pentest Strategy & Support: Shape the scope of internal and external penetration testing engagements, serving as the technical liaison to ensure findings are deeply understood and remediated by development teams.

Strategic Influence & Mentorship: Act as a force-multiplier for security across Cloudflare; mentor junior engineers, cultivate security champions