Top Cybersecurity Jobs in Austin, TX

Provides advanced technical support to enterprise customers using Cloudflare Zero Trust products. Troubleshoots identity, access, device security, authentication, networking, cloud integrations, and security incidents. Communicates with customers through multiple channels, creates technical documentation, escalates complex issues to Product, Engineering, and Security teams, and shares customer feedback to improve products. The role is based in Austin with twice-weekly office attendance and may include weekend shifts.

Research web application vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques, develop and maintain Cloudflare WAF managed rules, investigate false positives and missed attacks, test defenses against bypasses, automate exploit reproduction and validation, and use SQL and production telemetry to measure detection quality. The role collaborates with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams while documenting security research and mitigation decisions.

Own customer security questionnaires, RFPs, technical assessments, and audit facilitation. Advise enterprise customers, Sales, and Legal on security architecture and compliance terms. Build AI-powered workflows for questionnaire triage and evidence retrieval, maintain authoritative compliance knowledge repositories, and support Trust Portal development. Write public security content covering frameworks, controls, products, and regulations while partnering cross-functionally with Marketing, Engineering, Product, Legal, and AI teams.

Design and build agentic security tooling, orchestration workflows, evaluation harnesses, and open-source reference implementations on Cloudflare’s developer platform. Build isolated interactive labs, operate workshop infrastructure, lead customer and partner workshops, and communicate security architecture through technical writing and conference presentations. The role requires production software engineering, LLM-based systems, application and infrastructure security, and experience with developer education or hands-on learning environments.

Build and maintain data security products as a software engineer. Develop APIs and distributed systems, ingesting millions of data points daily while ensuring service performance, reliability, and scalability. Responsibilities include debugging, optimization, security-focused product development, and potentially frontend development and third-party API integrations using Cloudflare’s cloud, data, monitoring, and messaging technologies.

Define and guide the architecture of Cloudflare’s public Certificate Authority, including trust hierarchies, key management, issuance, revocation, transparency, resilience, compliance, threat modeling, and post-quantum migration. The role leads architecture across engineering, cryptography, security, infrastructure, compliance, and standards teams while mentoring implementers and representing Cloudflare in Web PKI industry initiatives.

Build and operate secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management across Cloudflare’s global network. Re-architect internal PKI and machine or workload identity systems, participate in on-call incident response, support internal developers, and advise engineering teams on secure system design. The role requires software development, distributed systems expertise, Linux/UNIX administration, and hands-on security implementation experience.

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Cloudflare’s threat intelligence portfolio. Translate emerging threats and attacker tactics into scalable, accurate intelligence capabilities that improve detection and response. Partner with threat researchers, analysts, engineers, sales, customer success, and customers to prioritize initiatives, drive adoption, analyze impact, manage escalations, and support the customer lifecycle.

Build and scale distributed security tools and services that translate security tradecraft into evidence-based workflows. Partner with security practitioners to automate investigations, improve architecture, performance, stability, and maintainability, and deliver actionable risk guidance. Develop production software using Go and/or TypeScript alongside technologies such as Rust, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, and PostgreSQL. Analyze complex technical concepts, mentor developers, and support on-call operations.

Lead Cloudflare’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance technical program, initially focused on the Department of Defense Impact Level 4 initiative. Responsibilities include managing roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, governance forums, risks, executive reporting, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution. The role also involves using AI platforms and automation to streamline program administration, metrics, status updates, and dashboards while applying federal cybersecurity frameworks and balancing compliance objectives with security priorities.