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Systems Engineer, Challenges & Turnstile

Cloudflare, Inc.
United States, California, San Francisco
101 Townsend Street (Show on map)
Feb 14, 2025
About Us

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.

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: Lisbon (preferred) or London


About Cloudflare and Our Team

Cloudflare's Engineering Team is home to some of the industry's top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet. Our team, specifically responsible for Turnstile and Challenges Pages, works in close collaboration with a dedicated Product Manager and other engineering teams to develop cutting-edge Bot detection solutions. Have a look at some of our articles mentioning Turnstile!

Working in Our Team

You'll be integral to making our product more robust, secure, and stable. Our product runs in all corners of the web, on any imaginable browser, requiring continuous testing and adaptability. We value innovation and problem-solving skills - we encourage you to bring forward problems you identify along with your best solutions. Our team syncs are centered around addressing these challenges, focusing on short and long-term solutions for maximum business value.

What You'll Do

As a Software Engineer in our team, you'll play a key role in expanding our Turnstile and Challenges products. Your responsibilities will include:



  • Enhancing bot and human detection capabilities while maintaining a focus on privacy, security, and usability.
  • Full-stack development - from Edge process configuration to client-side logic.
  • Building scalable, secure, and privacy-conscious software to accommodate a growing user base with diverse requirements.
  • This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.


About You

We're looking for an engineer with:



  • Proficiency in Rust and TypeScript (or eagerness to learn)
  • A security-focused mindset, essential for a product like Turnstile.
  • A natural sense of curiosity and a self-driven attitude.


Bonus Points



  • Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Docker, Salt, Lua, Go, and Unix systems will be highly regarded.


    • You do not need to have experience with any of these technologies!


  • Previous experience with counter abuse, fraud detection and mitigation.

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!

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.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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