Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce
About The Position
Cloudflare is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Emerging Technologies & Incubation Agentic Commerce team. The team builds infrastructure and tools for machine-to-machine commerce, enabling businesses to monetize access to content, data, services, products, and outcomes across the Internet. The role focuses on systems for agent payments, metering, and monetization, including high-throughput web infrastructure, low-latency transaction processing, usage metering, outcome verification, digital wallets, and emerging payment protocols. The engineer will design and ship scalable software across edge infrastructure, transaction engines, protocol layers, and developer tooling such as the Monetization Gateway. The work includes developing capabilities for pricing, agent authentication, outcome verification, and management of agent-generated revenue. The role is available in Lisbon or London on a hybrid basis.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput, low-latency production services.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, payment protocols or rails, web security, or cryptographic authorization.
- Ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and ship solutions in a fast-moving, emerging technical domain.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience or deep interest in payment systems, usage metering, billing engines, digital wallets, or machine-to-machine interaction protocols.
- Fluency in Rust, especially async Rust, or TypeScript/JavaScript edge runtimes such as Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, or KV.
- Experience with emerging agentic payment protocols (x402, A2P, ACP, UCP, Web Bot Auth) or digital wallet architectures.
- Experience building 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.
- Open-source contributions to payment systems, agent protocols, web standards, or distributed systems projects.
- A proven track record of debugging and resolving performance, concurrency, or transactional correctness bottlenecks.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship production-ready, low-latency services that make web resources payable for autonomous agents using emerging standards such as x402, WBA, ACP, and UCP.
- Build high-precision systems for usage metering, pricing definition, outcome verification, and value attribution for agentic workflows.
- Develop secure protocols and capabilities for authenticating and authorizing buyers, sellers, and autonomous agents across host-agnostic endpoints.
- Build capabilities and APIs that give businesses visibility, telemetry, and control over agent-generated revenue, billing, and settlement.
- Build resilient bridges between mainstream fiat commerce rails, digital wallets, and decentralized or cryptographic payment protocols for Internet-scale micropayments.
- Write clean, secure, well-tested code and uphold high standards for accounting precision, reliability, security, and low-latency performance.
- Collaborate with software engineers, researchers, product managers, design engineers, and other Cloudflare stakeholders to take capabilities from concept to production.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
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