Software Engineer, Agentic Discovery & AI Edge

Cloudflare; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 54,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Agentic Discovery team. You will design and ship scalable software across edge infrastructure, data pipelines, protocol layers, and developer tooling to power agent-web interactions.

You will work on standards like WebMCP, MCP, AEO, and agent-native controls, enabling content owners to manage how autonomous AI agents find, parse, and safely execute tasks on digital properties.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience building and operating reliable, high-throughput production services.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, proxies, caching, web security, and web performance.
• Hands-on experience or deep interest in AI agents, tool calling, MCP, or agent harnesses.
• Ability to rapidly prototype, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and ship solutions in a fast-moving domain.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship production-ready services that enable customers to evaluate, test, observe, and measure how AI agents read, represent, and interact with their websites and applications.
• Build and maintain support for emerging agent protocols and integrations (MCP, MCP Apps, UCP, MPP, WebMCP).
• Implement fine-grained content controls (access management, licensing, auditing) and agent-native audience/business models (attribution, monetization, and analytics).
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code, advocate for end-user privacy, and help maintain high system reliability, performance, and documentation.
• Partner with software engineers, researchers, product managers, design engineers, and cross-Cloudflare stakeholders to take capabilities from concept to production.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Production services

HTTP & APIs

AI agents

Prototyping & trade-offs

Communication skills

Tools

WebMCP

MCP

UCP

MPP

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Agentic Discovery team. You will design and ship scalable software across edge infrastructure, data pipelines, protocol layers, and developer tooling to power agent-web interactions.

You will work on standards like WebMCP, MCP, AEO, and agent-native controls, enabling content owners to manage how autonomous AI agents find, parse, and safely execute tasks on digital properties.