Cloudflare - Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce
Requirements
• Fluency in Rust (especially async Rust) or TypeScript/JavaScript edge runtimes (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, KV) at system-architectural scale. • Deep knowledge of emerging agentic payment protocols (x402, A2P, ACP, UCP, Web Bot Auth) or digital wallet architectures. • Experience architecting 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. • Active contributions to open-source payment systems, agent protocols, web standards, or distributed systems projects. • Experience training interviewers, closing candidates, or guiding company-wide technical standards.
Responsibilities
• Design and build resilient, low-latency systems and core architectures that make web resources Payable for autonomous agents using emerging protocols (x402, WBA, ACP, UCP). • Payable • Write technical specs (RFCs) and architecture designs that encompass deliverables for developers both within the team and across other Cloudflare engineering groups. • Meet directly with customers and Product Management to clarify requirements, define actionable KPIs, and translate business needs into scalable architectural solutions. • Architect services to reduce code complexity for the team, ensure seamless recovery from internal and external failures, and improve overall system health observability. • Lead complex incident responses, retrospectives, and root-cause analyses while driving initiatives that proactively prevent customer escalations and reduce system alerts. • Debug and resolve high-complexity issues spanning multiple teams, services, and protocols, using these opportunities to teach others how to handle similar challenges. • Actively mentor engineers, improve engineering and interviewing processes, conduct high-impact spec and code reviews, and share knowledge through technical talks and writings. • Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience • Deep software engineering and distributed systems expertise with a track record of architecting, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency production services. • Broad experience with HTTP, API design, payment protocols/rails, web security, and cryptographic authorization mechanisms. • Demonstrated experience defining product KPIs and translating complex customer and product requirements into clear architectural roadmaps. • Proven track record of debugging complex distributed system failures that span multiple teams and systems, with a focus on systemic remediation. • Strong history of technical mentorship, leading incident retrospectives, and driving process improvements inside and outside your immediate team. • Ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate deep architectural trade-offs, and establish design patterns in an emerging technical domain. • Excellent technical writing and communication skills, with experience drafting RFCs and specifications consumed by multiple engineering organizations.
Benefits
• Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. • ● For Portugal based hires: Estimated annual salary is between €66,000 - €91,000. • 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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