Engineering Manager, Agentic Commerce
Hybrid · In-Office · Austin, TX · London · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Location
- Hybrid · In-Office · Austin, TX · London
About Cloudflare
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- Available Locations: London or Austin
About the role
- 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, partnering closely with Product Management and engineering teams across Cloudflare.
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 the 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 tailored 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 that allow promising ideas to grow.
- 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.
Requirements
- You have led and developed a high-performing engineering team(s) and can point to what that team shipped and how the people on it grew.
- You are 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.
- You are comfortable managing a team working across several related technical areas (like digital wallets, payment protocols, and web authorization) and can create clarity.
- You care deeply about reliability and quality, particularly when the output of a system handles monetary transactions or machine authorization.
- You have strong product judgment and enjoy working with Product Management to decide what is worth building, what needs improvement and what should not be built at all.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and with finding structure in areas where the opportunity is clearer than the roadmap.
- You communicate clearly, give direct feedback, and can explain complex technical decisions to both engineers and non-engineers.
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Workplace
- Hybrid; In-Office; Austin, TX; London
Skills
- OAuth
- WebAuthn
- Web Bot Auth
- X402
- AP2
- ACP
- UCP
- Workers
- Durable Objects
- KV
