Austin, TX Hybrid Employment

Cloudflare is hiring an Escalation Engineer, Zero Trust

About the Role

About the Role

Role details below.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate the most complex, high-impact customer issues escalated from front-line support (TSEs) and directly raised by customers.
  • Perform deep-dive debugging across the full technology stack including application, database, infrastructure, APIs, and integrations.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in supporting Zero Trust technologies such as identity and access management (IAM), secure access service edge (SASE), endpoint security, and network segmentation tools.
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues across a broad set of systems including authentication flows (SSO, MFA), policy enforcement, and secure application access.
  • Use logs, traces, diagnostics to identify the underlying cause.
  • Work with Engineering to validate defects, create reproducible scenarios, and confirm fixes.
  • Provide coverage (shift rotation including possibility of weekends and Pacific Time hours) for technical troubleshooting of escalated issues.
  • Manage escalation lifecycle from intake to closure, ensuring technical accuracy and timely communication.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to drive bug fixes or workarounds.
  • Communicate status, risk, and resolution progress clearly to support leaders and customers (as appropriate).
  • Proactively swarm on critical or complex cases with Technical Support Engineers within their regional or skill-based Pod.
  • Provide real-time guidance and mentoring during troubleshooting.
  • Be an expert engineer in the team, help front-line engineers improve their technical depth and escalation readiness.
  • Document new findings, diagnostic steps, and resolutions in internal knowledge bases.
  • Share insights from escalations to improve product documentation and support training.
  • Contribute to runbooks and automation that help prevent future escalations.
  • Stay current with new product releases, architecture changes, and known issues.
  • Participate in engineering syncs or release readiness reviews to represent the support perspective.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more technical domains.

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of Zero Trust principles and technologies such as: Identity and Access Management, Endpoint Detection & Response, Network Security / Microsegmentation, Secu
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Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties. It protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Its intelligent global network routes web traffic to improve performance and reduce spam and attacks. Cloudflare offers services ranging from enterprise security solutions to public tools like 1.1.1.1, a privacy-first DNS resolver.
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Department Customer Support Team
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Posted 4 hours ago