Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce

Cloudflare•Austin, TX

About The Position

Cloudflare is hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead the engineering team responsible for Agentic Commerce. The manager will oversee the people, execution, and engineering quality behind products that power machine-to-machine payments and monetization, including the Monetization Gateway. They will partner with Product Management and engineering teams across Cloudflare to deliver current priorities and shape future opportunities. This is a management role requiring strong technical credibility: the manager should understand the systems the team operates, evaluate architectural decisions involving payment rails and cryptographic authorization, investigate technical issues, and step into technical problems when needed. Success is measured by the quality and output of the team, the development of its engineers, and the systems and products it delivers. The team builds infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce, addressing high-throughput web infrastructure, low-latency transaction processing, digital wallets, and emerging agentic payment protocols. It connects mainstream fiat commerce rails with decentralized protocols to enable Internet-scale micropayments and give domain owners control over agent-driven commerce. The role may require flexibility to be on-call outside standard working hours to address technical issues.

Requirements

Experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, with evidence of team delivery and engineer growth.
Technical credibility with experienced engineers, including the ability to review designs, understand distributed-systems or payment-platform trade-offs, and recognize when deeper investigation is needed.
Ability to manage a team working across related technical areas such as digital wallets, payment protocols, and web authorization, and create clarity amid complexity.
Strong commitment to reliability and quality, particularly for systems handling monetary transactions or machine authorization.
Strong product judgment and ability to work with Product Management to determine what to build, improve, or avoid building.
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to create structure when opportunities are clearer than the roadmap.
Clear communication, direct feedback, and ability to explain complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, low-latency transaction processing, API design, web security, or adjacent areas.
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

Experience building or operating products involving traditional payment rails, digital wallets, or open authorization/authentication standards such as OAuth, WebAuthn, or Web Bot Auth.
Familiarity with emerging agentic or machine-to-machine payment protocols such as x402, AP2, ACP, or UCP.
Experience building hybrid fiat/crypto payment infrastructure.
Familiarity with Cloudflare’s developer platform, including Workers, Durable Objects, and 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 and on payment technology.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and grow engineers working on high-throughput payment pipelines, agent authentication, and web-scale commerce architecture.
Own execution by establishing clear priorities, predictable delivery, and the context and autonomy engineers need to own meaningful product areas.
Lead development of agentic payment systems using emerging open standards such as x402, Web Bot Auth, ACP, and UCP to enable low-latency machine-to-machine micropayments.
Lead engineering for usage metering, pricing definition engines, outcome verification, and revenue attribution tailored to agentic workflows.
Build capabilities that give businesses 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.
Bridge mainstream and decentralized technologies, interfacing with blockchain teams while maintaining focus on mainstream, high-throughput web and fiat commerce rails.
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.
Be flexible to participate in on-call coverage outside standard working hours as needed.

Benefits

Medical/Rx insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter Spending Accounts
Fertility and family-forming benefits
On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
Global Travel Medical Insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Life and accident insurance
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employee Stock Participation Plan
Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Equity plan participation