Cloudflare Security Engineer jobs
An Austin-based security org hiring AI red-teamers despite a 20% company-wide cut.
The Product Security Engineer role
Cloudflare security engineers work as ‘Customer Zero’ for the company’s own network and products: product security and bug bounty triage with LLM-based automation, AI and agent red teaming, insider threat, IAM, and Cloudforce One threat intelligence and vulnerability defense. A separate group builds distributed secrets and key-management platforms in Go and Python. The org was shaped by the November 2023 nation-state intrusion and ‘Code Red’ remediation, which rotated 5,000+ credentials.
The security org spans the Security Threat Detection, Response and Emulation group (red team, SIRT), Cloudforce One threat intel, Security Products Engineering, IAM, GRC, Insider Threat and Product Security, with Austin as the main hub; a separate Security Platform team builds secrets and key management on the edge network.
Cloudflare security engineer salary
Base: $166,000–$208,000 is the posted New York range on AI Security Research & Red Team Engineer (4+ years; published Aug 10, 2026) — the only posted range on a mid-level Security-department req, because the Austin postings show none. Other posted US ranges: Vulnerability Defense SWE, Cloudforce One (DC) $150k–$206k; Senior SWE, Security Platform $185k–$266k by state; Staff/Principal SWE, Security Platform $220k–$303k. RSU eligibility is stated, the amount is not. Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi’s Cloudflare security page rests on three submissions.
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