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 Location - Bengaluru
About the Department
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 analyzes these unique data points at massive scale and efficiency, synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.
About INTERDICT
I.N.T.E.R.D.I.C.T. (Identify, Neutralize, Triage, Engage, Respond, Disrupt, Integrate, Contain, Threat Hunting) is Cloudforce One's unified operational security organization responsible for identifying, analyzing, and responding to threats targeting Cloudflare and its customers. INTERDICT encompasses three main sub-functions:
- PhishGuard: Managed email threat detection and response service
- Cloudflare Managed Defense (CMD): Network and application security monitoring for 'Under Attack' mitigation support.
- Detection Engineering: ML model development and detection optimization
Together, INTERDICT provides comprehensive 24×7×365 protection across email, application, and network threat surfaces.
Role Summary
Response Engineer within the Cloudflare Managed Defense Center (CMDC) provides front-line technical monitoring and threat mitigation for Cloudflare’s premium enterprise customers. In this role, you will proactively monitor internal alerting systems to identify, analyze, and mitigate real-time security events across OSI Layers 3, 4, and 7. Working alongside senior engineers and operational teams, you will execute established runbooks to protect complex customer infrastructure from sophisticated DDoS and application-layer attacks. We are looking for a collaborative, analytical professional who remains calm under pressure and is eager to develop their security expertise within a fast-paced environment.
Role Responsibilities
- Monitor and investigate proactive security alerts via internal telemetry systems to rapidly identify ongoing infrastructure and application-layer attacks.
- Apply appropriate mitigation steps and filter malicious traffic using Cloudflare’s core security tools, including Magic Transit, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Rate Limiting.
- Review incoming alerts to determine urgency, scope, and validity, while accurately maintaining incident tracking tickets for necessary escalations.
- Communicate technical updates clearly and professionally with enterprise customers via chat, email, and phone during active security incidents.
- Adhere to strict customer SLAs for alert response times, event analysis, and ongoing operational communications.
- Maintain and update customer-specific runbooks, threshold rules, and escalation matrices to ensure seamless incident execution.
- Collaborate with internal Engineering and Product teams to provide feedback on tools and suggest improvements for alert rules.
Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)
- A minimum of 2–5 years of relevant hands-on experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC), technical support engineering, or network operations environment.
- Strong foundational understanding of networking principles and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, and BGP.
- Experience analyzing network traffic data for anomaly detection and executing basic mitigation protocols against L3/L4 or L7 attacks.
- Professional proficiency using the command line (Bash shell) alongside general system administration literacy across Linux, Mac, or Windows environments.
- Proven customer-facing technical support experience, with the communication skills required to assist stakeholders during high-pressure incidents.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Hands-on experience with packet capture and network analysis tools such as tcpdump or Wireshark.
- Foundational scripting skills (Python preferred) to assist in automating basic operational workflows.
- Familiarity with querying datasets via APIs/GraphQL or monitoring performance metrics inside Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
- Relevant industry certifications, such as CompTIA Security+, CCNA, or foundational GIAC credentials (e.g., GCIA).
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
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