Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce

Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead the engineering team across Agentic Commerce. You will be responsible for the people, execution, and engineering quality behind products that power machine-to-machine payments and monetization, such as our Monetization Gateway. This is a management role for someone who is deeply technically credible. You will not be expected to write most of the code, but you should be able to understand the systems your engineers operate, challenge architectural decisions around payment rails and cryptographic auth, ask the right questions when something is going wrong, and step into a technical problem when the situation calls for it.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and grow engineers working across high-throughput payment pipelines, agent authentication, and web-scale commerce architecture; Own execution by establishing clear priorities, creating predictable delivery, and giving engineers context and autonomy to own meaningful areas of the product; Lead the development of agentic payment systems leveraging emerging open standards (x402, Web Bot Auth, ACP, UCP) to enable low-latency, machine-to-machine micropayments; Lead the engineering behind usage metering, pricing definition engines, outcome verification, and revenue attribution models for agentic workflows; Build capabilities that give businesses granular visibility and control over their agent-generated revenue streams; Partner closely with Product Management to understand customer problems, shape the roadmap, and turn broad opportunities into clear engineering outcomes; Bridge mainstream and decentralized tech, interfacing with blockchain teams while keeping execution focused on mainstream, high-throughput web and fiat commerce rails; Balance near-term product delivery with thoughtful technical investments; Own the operational health of the systems in your area, including observability, incident response, cryptographic security, and long-term reliability; Develop technical leaders and create space for engineers to lead architecture and implementation; May require flexibility to be on-call outside standard working hours

Requirements

Led and developed a high-performing engineering team(s) and can point to what that team shipped and how the people on it grew; Technically credible with experienced engineers, able to review a design, understand trade-offs in distributed systems or payment platforms, and recognize when a technical problem needs deeper investigation; Comfortable managing a team across several related technical areas (digital wallets, payment protocols, web authorization); Cares deeply about reliability and quality, particularly for systems handling monetary transactions or machine authorization; Strong product judgment and enjoys working with Product Management; Comfortable with ambiguity and finding structure where the opportunity is clearer than the roadmap; Communicates clearly, gives direct feedback, and explains complex technical decisions to engineers and non-engineers; Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, low-latency transaction processing, API design, web security, or adjacent areas; Experience building or operating products involving traditional payment rails, digital wallets, or open authorization/authentication standards (e.g., OAuth, WebAuthn, Web Bot Auth); Experience operating systems where correctness, reliability, and security matter as much as feature delivery; A 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 have

Familiarity with emerging agentic/machine-to-machine payment protocols (x402, AP2, ACP, UCP); Experience building hybrid fiat/crypto payment infrastructure; Familiarity with Cloudflare's developer platform (Workers, Durable Objects, KV) or 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 payments technology

Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance; Dental Insurance; Vision Insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; Commuter Spending Accounts; Fertility & Family Forming Benefits; On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program; Global Travel Medical Insurance; Short and Long Term Disability Insurance; Life & 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; Eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan