Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Discovery & AI Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) group. You will define the architecture and standards powering agent-based web interactions, mentoring teams across Cloudflare while shaping product roadmaps and engineering practices.

In this role, you will drive high-throughput services, collaborate with product managers and customers, and own critical incident responses to improve system resilience and performance across edge infrastructure and

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable system architecture and setting performance metrics in distributed environments.
• Experience writing technical specifications and leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Understanding HTTP, APIs, proxies, caching, web security, and performance bottlenecks.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents, tool calling, MCP, or agent harnesses.
• Ability to partner with product managers and customers to translate needs into architecture.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to hiring and incident response improvements.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship high-throughput, resilient production services for autonomous agents.
• Define agent protocols and write architectural specs guiding cross-team work.
• Collaborate with product, customers and stakeholders to translate needs into requirements.
• Improve system health and observability; lead incident responses and postmortems.
• Mentor engineers, review code, and strengthen engineering processes.

Skills

System architecture

Technical specs

HTTP APIs

AI agents

Collaboration

Mentoring

Rust

TypeScript/JavaScript

Tools

Rust

TypeScript/JavaScript

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) group. You will define the architecture and standards powering agent-based web interactions, mentoring teams across Cloudflare while shaping product roadmaps and engineering practices.

In this role, you will drive high-throughput services, collaborate with product managers and customers, and own critical incident responses to improve system resilience and performance across edge infrastructure and