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Salary: EUR 66,000 - 91,000 / annual
Cloudflare's Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) team is building products that enable the next era of the Internet by making domains Readable, Discoverable, and Callable for autonomous AI agents. This is a core part of Cloudflare's vision for the Agentic Internet—as AI agents change how humans and machines find, evaluate, and act on information, businesses need tools to control how they are represented and reached.
You will serve as a technical anchor and subject matter expert on the Agentic Discovery team, defining architecture, core protocols, and multi-team standards powering the next generation of agent-web interactions. As a senior technical leader, you will shape product roadmaps, mentor engineers across Cloudflare, and write technical specifications that drive execution across multiple teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect and ship high-throughput, resilient production services that make web properties Readable (structured content transformation), Discoverable (indexing and AEO), and Callable (WebMCP, tool-calling APIs, Generative UI) for autonomous agents
- Define emerging agent protocols and integrations (MCP, MCP Apps, UCP, MPP, WebMCP), authoring architectural specifications and technical designs that guide engineering work both within and outside the ETI team
- Partner directly with Product Management, customers, and stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical requirements, clarify KPIs, and shape engineering roadmaps
- Drive improvements in system health and observability, leading complex incident responses, conducting post-incident retrospectives, and rearchitecting systems to eliminate failure modes
- Elevate the engineering process across Cloudflare through code reviews, technical mentorship, architectural governance, and candidate evaluation for engineering hiring
Desirable qualifications:
- Experience designing scalable system architecture and setting performance metrics in distributed environments
- Experience writing technical specifications and leading cross-functional technical initiatives to completion
- Deep understanding of HTTP, APIs, proxies, caching, web security, and performance bottlenecks spanning multi-service architectures
- Hands-on experience and deep conceptual understanding of AI agents, tool calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or agent harnesses
- Ability to partner with product managers and customers to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and iteratively deliver large-scale architecture
- Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, contributing to hiring, and driving improvements to engineering processes and incident response workflows
Bonus qualifications:
- Fluency in async Rust or TypeScript/JavaScript edge runtimes (e.g., Cloudflare Workers) at scale
- Active contributions to or leadership in open-source agent frameworks, protocols (e.g., MCP), web standards bodies, browser engines, or network proxies
- Track record of resolving complex, multi-team production incidents and driving post-mortem recommendations to completion
- Background in search engines, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), web crawling at scale, or RAG platform engineering
- Expertise in cryptographic protocols (public-key encryption, digital signatures) or privacy-preserving web architectures
