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Business Continuity Plan / Disaster Recovery Engineer

Cloudflare, Inc.
medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, sick time, long term disability, 401(k)
United States, California, San Francisco
101 Townsend Street (Show on map)
Apr 21, 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: Hybrid - Austin, Washington D.C. Cloudflare's Edge Architecture was designed for massive redundancy and resilience. Over the past few years, Cloudflare has also invested heavily in upleveling the resiliency and fault tolerance of the Control Plane, Logs and Analytics that our customers use to configure, monitor and manage their Cloudflare services. The investments that have landed are incorporated into Cloudflare's Service Delivery Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policies. But there are still significant advances remaining for our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policies. We are expanding the scope of services covered to include new customer-facing services that have new and unique architectural and operational characteristics as well as all key operational / supporting services. We are also including critical new risk vectors. We will uplift from discrete Service Delivery BCP and Business System BCPs into a converged Enterprise Business Continuity plan across all critical business functions. This role is for the BCP/DR Engineer who will work closely with the BCP/DR/HA Engineering Leader to contribute to the overall BCP/DR strategy, translate that strategy into prioritized actions, work closely across the organization to enlist and engage critical teams to drive solutions and processes that advance Cloudflare's resilience and posture as Critical Infrastructure for our customers. Responsibilities: Working closely with the BCP/DR TPM, provide engineering leadership for the Infrastructure Resilience investment response to Code Orange. Complete the planned investment plan and incorporate into our BCP. Drive shared definition and formalize Cloudflare's preparedness to respond to alternate types of attacks. This likely takes a multi-phase approach: Current state Response Model: Define people, processes and options and decision tree for how we would respond with current architecture and risk profile Identify and lead prioritization of investment opportunities to mitigate risk. Drive recommendation to approved plan, manage investment plan to implementation. Revise Response Model based on changing risk landscape. Customer facing contributions: Create appropriate customer collateral showing Cloudflare's approach, reducing deal friction. Participate in customer calls on BCP/DR/HA. Engineer 'Prove It' approach and evidence collection. A critical component of resiliency is ensuring that as-operating meets the objectives of as-designed. This requires consistent, frequent in-production validations to avoid drift and ensure fault tolerance. This engineer will play a leadership role in defining, prioritizing and work with the engineering teams executing the prioritized validations, managing a growing portfolio of Chaos testing. Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience: Ability to analyze threat vectors and map them through our distributed systems to develop remediation plans and test scenarios to validate desired response patterns Deep understanding of BCP concerns such as HA, DR and Ransomware Ability to negotiate across engineering organizations to develop and agree upon product requirements to meet business continuity objectives. Ability to prioritize to deliver the best outcome for the investment available Ability to abstract complex technical solutions into customer-consumable information Strong communication skills across both internal and external, technical and non-technical audiences. Bonus Points: Deep understanding of Cloudflare's Edge and Core architectures Distributed systems experience Publishing externally facing, customer consumable materials Audit participation and remediation experience Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $137,000 - $167,000 For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $188,000 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. 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.