Incident Response Engineer - PhishGuard

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><div><strong>About Us</strong></div> <div> <p>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. </p> <p>At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.</p> </div></div><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Response Engineer - PhishGuard </span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Available Location: Bengaluru</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the Department</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Members of Cloudforce One are at the helm of leveraging an incredibly vast and varied set of data points that only one of the world's largest global networks can provide. The team analyzes these unique data points at massive scale and efficiency, synthesizing findings into actionable threat intelligence to better protect our customers.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About INTERDICT</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I.N.T.E.R.D.I.C.T. (Identify, Neutralize, Triage, Engage, Respond, Disrupt, Integrate, Contain, Threat Hunting) is Cloudforce One's unified operational security organization responsible for identifying, analyzing, and responding to threats targeting Cloudflare and its customers. INTERDICT encompasses three main sub-functions:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PhishGuard: Managed email threat detection and response service</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cloudflare Managed Defense (CMD): Network and application security monitoring for 'Under Attack' mitigation support.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Detection Engineering: ML model development and detection optimization</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Together, INTERDICT provides comprehensive 24×7×365 protection across email, application, and network threat surfaces.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Role Summary</span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a Response Engineer for PhishGuard, you will serve as the essential human intelligence layer responsible for identifying, tracking, and defeating sophisticated email-borne cyber threats like Business Email Compromise (BEC) and vendor fraud. You will operate within the INTERDICT organization, collaborating closely with internal teams like Detection Engineering, PREDICT (Threat Intelligence), and SIRT to hunt down adversaries and refine global security models. Our ideal candidate possesses deep forensic thoroughness, exceptional nuance detection, and a growth-minded curiosity to protect global organizations using one of the world's largest networks.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Role Responsibilities</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conduct continuous, real-time monitoring of email threat queues to review and analyze sophisticated attacks flagged by Cloudflare Email Security automated systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigate customer-reported submissions, execute proactive threat hunts targeting emerging patterns, and perform manual retraction or quarantine of verified malicious emails.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span…