Distributed Systems Engineer, MCP Portals

CloudFlare; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 45 000 - 62 000; Tempo integral

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Equity plan

Resumo da oferta

Cloudflare MCP Server Portals give organizations a secure, centralized way to connect AI agents to internal and third-party tools. As a Systems Engineer on the MCP Portals team, you will build and operate the distributed systems that authenticate users, manage OAuth credentials and sessions, enforce Zero Trust policies, and proxy MCP traffic across Cloudflare's global network.

This role collaborates with engineers and product managers across Access, Gateway, and Developer Platform teams to

Qualificações

• Experience building and operating reliable distributed systems, backend services, network services, or infrastructure products in production.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, proxies, streaming connections, and common distributed-systems failure modes.
• Experience debugging production systems using logs, metrics, traces, error reporting, and customer-provided evidence.
• Ability to reason carefully about security boundaries, credential handling, concurrency, state management, and backward-compatible deployments.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate investigations and solutions across team boundaries.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and operate the globally distributed services that connect MCP clients to authorized upstream MCP servers.
• Evolve our implementation as the MCP specification changes.
• Build secure authentication and authorization flows involving Cloudflare Access, OAuth, identity, and delegated access to upstream services.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and resource efficiency of multi-tenant systems built on the Cloudflare Developer Platform.
• Develop observability through structured logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts, and participate in production support and incident response.
• Investigate customer issues across multiple services and teams, distinguishing product defects from upstream failures, policy configuration, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Collaborate with product, security, and engineering partners to turn customer needs and emerging standards into well-tested, maintainable product capabilities.

Conhecimentos

Distributed systems

Backend services

Network services

Security boundaries

Communication skills

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Cloudflare MCP Server Portals give organizations a secure, centralized way to connect AI agents to internal and third-party tools. As a Systems Engineer on the MCP Portals team, you will build and operate the distributed systems that authenticate users, manage OAuth credentials and sessions, enforce Zero Trust policies, and proxy MCP traffic across Cloudflare's global network.

This role collaborates with engineers and product managers across Access, Gateway, and Developer Platform teams to