Engineering Manager, Stablecoins

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Cloudflare is hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead the engineering team responsible for its stablecoin initiatives. The role owns the people, execution, and engineering quality behind products such as stablecoin wallets and micropayment rails that support decentralized transactions by AI agents and make web resources payable. The manager will partner with Product Management, cryptography experts, and engineering teams across Cloudflare to deliver current priorities and shape future opportunities. This is a management role requiring strong technical credibility in distributed systems, smart contracts, and cryptographic protocols. The manager is not expected to write most of the code, but should understand the systems the team operates, challenge blockchain architecture decisions—including transactions, RPCs, and execution and consensus clients—and step in when needed. Success is measured by the quality and output of the team, the engineers developed, and the systems and products delivered. The team builds infrastructure for high-volume, low-value machine-to-machine transactions using blockchain technologies and decentralized protocols. Its work spans blockchain-based settlement systems, programmable agent wallets, cryptographic payment channels, low-latency transaction processing, and payment protocols. The role may require flexibility to be on-call outside standard working hours to address technical issues. The position is available in London or Austin.

Requirements

Experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, including evidence of what the team shipped and how its members grew.
Technical credibility with experienced blockchain and systems engineers, including the ability to review designs, assess smart contract security and decentralized architecture trade-offs, and evaluate cryptographic protocols.
Comfort managing a team working across specialized cryptographic topics such as decentralized settlement, programmable wallets, and key management systems.
Care deeply about reliability and quality, particularly for systems handling monetary transactions or machine authorization.
Strong product judgment and experience working with Product Management to decide what to build, improve, or avoid building.
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to bring structure to opportunities without a clear roadmap.
Clear communication skills, including giving direct feedback and explaining complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong technical grounding in blockchain architecture, smart contract environments, and cryptographic key management.
Experience operating systems where correctness, reliability, and security are as important as feature delivery.
Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
Experience partnering closely with Product Management to shape and execute a roadmap.
Experience taking products or major capabilities from an ambiguous opportunity to a clear customer outcome.
Strong written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

Past experience building Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchains.
Experience building or operating cryptocurrency infrastructure, digital wallet providers, or decentralized settlement protocols.
Past experience working on consumer or enterprise cryptocurrency wallets.
Hands-on experience with decentralized payment protocols or blockchain frameworks, such as Bitcoin Lightning or Ethereum rollups.
Experience building hybrid fiat/crypto payment infrastructure, such as onramp/offramp providers or applications where cryptocurrency is invisible to users.
Familiarity with Cloudflare’s developer platform, including Workers, Durable Objects, or KV, or with edge computing architectures.
Experience turning complex underlying systems into useful payment or commerce products for a broad audience.
Experience with usage-based billing, metering engines, attribution systems, or complex commercial pricing models.
Previous experience working in payments or on payment technology, fiat or crypto.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and grow engineers working across blockchain architecture, stablecoin wallets, and cryptographic payment channels.
Own execution by establishing clear priorities, enabling predictable delivery, and giving engineers the context and autonomy to own meaningful product areas.
Lead development of a high-throughput blockchain using cryptocurrency protocols and standards to enable ultra-low-latency micropayments.
Lead engineering for usage metering, pricing definition engines, outcome verification, and revenue attribution models for agentic workflows.
Build capabilities that provide businesses with granular visibility and control over revenue generated by their agents.
Partner with Product Management to understand customer problems, shape the roadmap, and translate opportunities into clear engineering outcomes.
Work with blockchain, wallet, and cryptography teams while scaling decentralized transaction pipelines on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.
Balance near-term product delivery with technical investments that allow promising ideas to grow.
Own operational health, including observability, incident response, cryptographic security, and long-term reliability.
Develop technical leaders and create opportunities for engineers to lead architecture and implementation.