Lead Vulnerability Management Engineer

Reporting to the Director of Vulnerability Management, the Lead Vulnerability Management Engineer will serve as the technical authority for the program, focusing on the architecture, systems design, and long-term technology strategy for Cloudflare's vulnerability management capabilities. You will lead the evaluation and integration of advanced security technologies and systems across global infrastructure and cloud environments. As a senior technical lead, you will work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product teams to architect scalable remediation workflows and drive effective risk reduction. A key focus of this role is leveraging emerging technologies, including AI, to automate the vulnerability lifecycle and enhance operational efficiency. We are looking for a highly technical, proactive leader capable of designing complex integrations and managing large-scale remediation initiatives.

This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.

• Serve as the primary technical lead for the Vulnerability Management team, providing architectural guidance and mentoring team members on complex technical challenges.
• Lead the architecture, systems design, technology evaluation, and systems integration for the global VM program, ensuring tooling is effectively embedded across the technology stack.
• Oversee and conduct advanced vulnerability scanning, performing in-depth validation of findings to verify accuracy, filter false positives, and lead the triage and prioritization of critical risks.
• Collaborate closely with technology owners and establish strong, trust-based relationships with engineering teams to drive the remediation or mitigation of complex vulnerabilities.
• Strategically manage and track the remediation backlog, maintaining a high-level view of risk reduction progress and reporting on systemic security trends.
• Design and implement AI-driven solutions to manage the vulnerability lifecycle and automate repetitive operational tasks within the vulnerability management domain.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of global vulnerability management standards, procedures, and playbooks.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for the GRC team, translating complex technical vulnerabilities and mitigations into clear compliance context to support continuous readiness for audits (e.g., SOC-2, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP).
• Own the technical reporting and evidence generation process for internal and external audits, ensuring scanning cadences and remediation workflows consistently meet or exceed compliance baselines.
• Interpret evolving regulatory and compliance requirements into actionable technical scanning policies, ensuring newly mandated checks are quickly integrated into the active scanning program