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Salary: EUR 54,000 - 75,000 / annual
Cloudflare's Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) department is building products that enable the next era of the Internet by making domains readable, discoverable, and callable for autonomous AI agents. The Agentic Discovery team is at the forefront of this vision, developing core systems, protocols, and customer-facing tools that power agent-web interactions.
In this role, you will design and ship scalable software across edge infrastructure, data pipelines, protocol layers, and developer tooling. You'll work on cutting-edge standards like WebMCP, MCP, AEO, and agent-native controls that enable content owners to manage how autonomous AI agents find, parse, and safely execute tasks on their digital properties.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and ship production-ready services that enable customers to evaluate, test, observe, and measure how AI agents read, represent, and interact with their websites and applications.
- Build and maintain support for emerging agent protocols and integrations (MCP, MCP Apps, UCP, MPP, WebMCP).
- Implement fine-grained content controls (access management, licensing, auditing) and agent-native audience/business models (attribution, monetization, and analytics).
- Write clean, secure, well-tested code, advocate for end-user privacy, and help maintain high system reliability, performance, and documentation.
- Partner with software engineers, researchers, product managers, design engineers, and cross-Cloudflare stakeholders to take capabilities from concept to production.
Cloudflare's culture emphasizes iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster, and ensuring improvements are shared across the team. The company values curiosity over bureaucracy and sees AI as a partner in solving tough problems.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput production services.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, proxies, caching, web security, and web performance.
- Hands-on experience or deep interest in AI agents, tool calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), or agent harnesses.
- Ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and ship solutions in a fast-moving, emerging technical domain.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Fluency in Rust (especially async Rust) or TypeScript/JavaScript edge runtimes (e.g., Cloudflare Workers).
- Hands-on experience with search, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), web crawling, or RAG platform engineering.
- Open-source contributions to agent frameworks, protocols, web standards, browser engines, or distributed systems projects.
- Past experience contributing to a major web framework, proxy, CDN infrastructure, or bare-metal backend cloud provider.
- Proven track record of debugging and resolving network-level and application-level performance bottlenecks.
- Understanding of cryptographic concepts (public-key encryption, digital signatures, hash functions) or privacy-preserving web protocols.
