Cloudflare - Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce
Requirements
• Fluency in Rust (with a big plus for experience in async Rust) or TypeScript/JavaScript edge runtimes (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, KV). • Experience with emerging agentic payment protocols (x402, A2P, ACP, UCP, Web Bot Auth) or digital wallet architectures. • Experience building high-precision event metering pipelines, usage-based billing engines, outcome verification systems, or revenue attribution tools. • Experience with smart contract bridges, cryptography (public-key encryption, signatures, hashes), or hybrid fiat/crypto payment infrastructure. • Open-source contributions to payment systems, agent protocols, web standards, or distributed systems projects. • Proven track record of debugging and resolving performance, concurrency, or transactional correctness bottlenecks.
Responsibilities
• Design and ship production-ready, low-latency services that make web resources Payable for autonomous agents using emerging standards (x402, WBA, ACP, UCP). • Payable • Build high-precision systems for usage metering, pricing definition, outcome verification, and value attribution tailored for agentic workflows. • Build secure protocols and capabilities for authenticating and authorizing buyers, sellers, and autonomous agents across host-agnostic endpoints. • Develop capabilities and APIs that give businesses granular visibility, telemetry, and control over agent-generated revenue, billing, and settlement. • Build resilient bridges between mainstream fiat commerce rails, digital wallets, and decentralized/cryptographic payment protocols for Internet-scale micropayments. • Write clean, secure, well-tested code, maintain strict accounting/financial precision, and advocate for high reliability, security, and low-latency performance. • Partner with software engineers, researchers, product managers, design engineers, and cross-Cloudflare stakeholders to take capabilities from concept to production. • Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience • Strong software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals. • Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput, low-latency production services. • Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, payment protocols/rails, web security, or cryptographic authorization. • Hands-on experience or deep interest in payment systems, usage metering, billing engines, digital wallets, or machine-to-machine interaction protocols. • Ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and ship solutions in a fast-moving, emerging technical domain. • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
• Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. • ● For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €54,000 - €75,000. • The final offer will be inclusive of time exemption, in alignment with the applicable law and collective bargaining agreements. • Equity • Equity • This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. • 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. • Project Galileo • 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. • Athenian Project • 1.1.1.1 • Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! • Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. • 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.
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