Machine Learning Engineer, Cloudflare

Threat Intelligence

$115-172k

+ Equity plan; Salary dependent on location

Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

Open for applications

Cloudflare

Web performance and security platform

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Open for applications

$115-172k

+ Equity plan; Salary dependent on location

Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseAnalyticsSaaSCyber Security

Company mission

Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet that is bold and ambitious.

Role

Who you are

  • The candidate should have strong foundational machine learning knowledge
  • Thorough understanding of machine learning concepts such as what types of models perform best again what types of data
  • Desire to see a project through all the way from model creation, training, productionalized deployment, through automated retraining from feedback
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver and listen to feedback
  • Proven ability to deliver performance (what) with the right behaviors (how)
  • There are multiple levels open on the team, both mid & senior level

Desirable

  • Experience with deploying Deep Learning models in production systems
  • Experience with development and deployment of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications
  • Wide machine learning knowledge from linear regression through LLMs

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team
  • The successful candidate will work on designing, developing, and implementing Machine Learning algorithms and models to deploy scalable Machine Learning models
  • This is a hands-on position where the candidate will have the opportunity to work in our security portfolio that includes our Email Security products
  • This role will initially primarily support Cloudflare Email Security in improving and creating new innovative models to better detect spam, phishing, or other malicious emails
  • Collaborate with our Data Scientists to integrate and deploy scalable Machine Learning models
  • Collaborate with analysts to understand new email attack techniques then design and deploy models to detect these techniques
  • Implement Machine Learning models in production systems and monitor their performance in real-time
  • Continuously improve the performance and scalability of existing Machine Learning models
  • Identify, diagnose and resolve issues in production environments
  • Contribute to our MLOps Platform to ensure the platform's evolution
  • The Threat Intelligence team is responsible for helping teams build security intelligence into our security suite of products. The team fuses threat intelligence from a swath of external sources with intelligence mined from Cloudflare's world class data to provide threat intelligence used across a number of Cloudflare products
  • The team's core disciplines are data engineering, data science, devops, and security. We use data science and machine learning to process large volumes of data and build intelligence into Cloudflare's products

Our take

Cloudflare is a multi-service global network that provides web security and infrastructure, DDoS mitigation services, and a content delivery network. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare has risen to become an industry giant, with around 25 million global internet properties on its network.

Cloudflare has been responsible for a number of admirable initiatives, offering free web protection to human rights groups, journalists, artists, and US election websites. This goes some way to counteracting the flak Cloudflare has received in some circles for the controversial groups and users who use its services. This chequered history, however, has not affected its over 80% market share in the content delivery network field.

This is perhaps in part because it has proven sharp at staying abreast of the rapidly morphing tech and digital space and customer demands. For example, Cloudflare is shifting to 100% renewable energy usage to create a zero-emissions internet, and in 2020 released a feature that would help users navigate data privacy regulations by selecting where their data is stored.

The cloud infrastructure market reached $53 billion in 2022. While the Big 3 (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) own 65% of the market, that still leaves billions of dollars left for companies such as Cloudflare. Its ambitious and successful work is likely to continue being a crucial feature of the web, but in 2023, placed it in the crosshairs of hackers looking to exploit its infrastructure. The beginning of 2024 saw Cloudflare vow to bolster its security and patch vulnerabilities.

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Minimum 8 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) plans
  • Family planning and fertility program
  • Gym discounts
  • Commuter Benefits Program

Company values

  • Principled - We create our products and features with a global mindset and democratize important and innovative technologies that drive adoption of the latest standards
  • Curious - Our team is made up of pioneering innovators that approach new challenges with interest and a desire to learn
  • Transparent - We hold ourselves accountable when we make mistakes—and we do everything we can to learn from them

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Lee Holloway

(Lead Engineer)

Lee started their career as an Engineer at Homewarehouse for a year before working at Unspam Technologies for 4 years. They co-created Project Honey Pot in 2004 and Cloudflare in March 2009, serving as Lead Engineer of both to present.

Michelle Zatlyn

(President & COO)

Having worked for Investor Economics and I Love Rewards for a combined 4 years, Michelle worked at Toshiba for 3 years as a Product Manager. She then co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 as COO, and has served as President since 2020. She is also a Board Member at Atlassian.

Matthew studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School before co-founding Unspam Technologies in December 2001, and Cloudflare as CEO in March 2009.

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