Cloudforce One Malware Reversing Engineer

Position Title:
Cloudforce One Malware Reversing Engineer

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds 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 Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds 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 e join us!

Available Locations:
Mexico City, London, and India

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 worlds 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.

Cloudflare is a system spanning the globe, on a mission to make the internet better, safer, and more powerful every day. 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 alongside 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 modernize 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 possess 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.

• 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…