Cloudforce One Malware Reversing Engineer

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Available Locations:  US Remote

About the Team

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 is able to analyze these unique data points, at massive scale and efficiency, synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.

About the Role

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more powerful everyday.  To help fulfill this mission, we are seeking a talented Malware Reverse Engineer to join us in growing our Cloudforce One Organization, where you will be instrumental in building a proactive and threat intelligence-driven approach to protecting Cloudflare and its customers from sophisticated and ever-evolving global threat actors. This position requires an innovative, self-starting, and detail-oriented problem solver with a passion for analyzing, tracking, and triaging the malicious software used by sophisticated cyber threats.

As a Cloudforce One Reverse Engineer, you will analyze malicious binaries with the goal of monitoring and disrupting cyber threat activity across multiple platforms, supporting both client requests and proactive internal research. You will serve an integral role in the discovery and analysis of cyber threat adversaries, working along side detection engineers to detect attacks and threat researchers to track them. The findings you uncover will help identify Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of ongoing and ever-evolving cyber attacks to protect our global customer base. Lastly, you will help expand our malware lab environment so that we may modernized and scale our operations to streamline malware analysis within Cloudflare.

Our ideal candidate will have 7+ years of previous experience reverse engineering malware samples and can write reliable code, preferably in Python or Golang. Top candidates will have extensive experience with hands on static and dynamic analysis of common file formats on Windows, macOS, or UNIX-based platforms. We also would like our candidates to have experience writing code to process malware samples and interacting with APIs. As a member of the team you will be responsible for contributing to and deploying team codebases to coalesce traits of an attack. Outstanding candidates will also posses excellent verbal and written communication skills to facilitate dialogue with the Threat Research Team for reporting on malware and malware families.  You will also work both as a self-driven individual contributor and alongside a team to achieve a common goal. 

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Possess mid-level experience as a Malware Analyst able to reverse engineer various file formats and analyze complex malware samples.
• Reverse engineering experience with APT malware with an understanding of common infection vectors.
• Perform system analysis using best practice malware analytics methodologies on Windows, macOS, or UNIX/Linux platform.
• Understanding of source code, hex, binary, regular expression, data correlation, and analysis such as network flow and system logs.
• Practical malware analysis experience with static, dynamic, and automated malware analysis techniques.
• Knowledgeable of current malware techniques to evade detection and obstruct analysis.
• Experience with network protocol analysis and cryptography
• Proficient in Python or Golang, capable of writing modular code that can be installed on a remote system
• Capable of updating analysis VMs and contributing to an analysis framework
• Contributions to enhancing collaborative malware analysis tools
• Experience writing malware reports on unique and interesting aspects of malware
• Experience with malware attribution
• Proficient with Yara and writing rules to detect similar malware samples
• Prior Government experience in malware tracking, analysis, and reporting

Bonus Points

• Experience with tracking and identifying threats through Indicator of Compromising (IOCs) pivoting and infrastructure enumeration 
• A conceptual understanding of how attackers conduct operations in regards to the MITRE Cyber Kill Chain
• Familiarity with bash command line executables to conduct static analysis and investigate IOCs.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $162,000 - $198,000
• For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000
• For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

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.

cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/">Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists 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: We created 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.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.

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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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