Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce & Payments

WebHosting; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 66,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Agentic Commerce team, defining architecture and building core systems for machine-to-machine payments and metering across Cloudflare’s network. The role focuses on high-throughput, low-latency services and requires collaboration with customers, product managers, and multiple engineering groups.

You will craft architectural specs, guide cross-team efforts, mentor engineers, and drive incident responses while shaping product roadmaps

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering and distributed systems experience.
• Broad experience with HTTP, API design, payment protocols/rails, web security, and cryptographic authorization.
• Experience defining product KPIs and translating requirements into clear architectural roadmaps.
• Proven track record debugging complex distributed system failures spanning teams.
• Strong mentorship, leading incident retrospectives, and driving process improvements.
• Ability to prototype rapidly and establish design patterns in emerging domains.
• Excellent technical writing/communication, RFCs and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build resilient, low-latency systems and core architectures for agentic commerce.
• Write RFCs and architecture designs for internal and cross-team use.
• Meet with customers and Product Management to clarify requirements and define KPIs.
• Architect services to reduce code complexity and improve observability.
• Lead incident responses, retrospectives, and root-cause analyses.
• Debug and resolve high-complexity issues across multiple teams and protocols.
• Mentor engineers, improve processes, and share knowledge via talks and writings.

Skills

HTTP/API design

Payment protocols

Web security

Crypto auth

KPIs definition

Incident retrospectives

Mentorship

RFCs/specs

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Agentic Commerce team, defining architecture and building core systems for machine-to-machine payments and metering across Cloudflare’s network. The role focuses on high-throughput, low-latency services and requires collaboration with customers, product managers, and multiple engineering groups.

You will craft architectural specs, guide cross-team efforts, mentor engineers, and drive incident responses while shaping product roadmaps