About the Job
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Key Responsibilities
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. You will partner closely with Product Management and engineering teams across Cloudflare to deliver current priorities and shape future opportunities. This is a management role for someone who is deeply technically credible. You will not be expected to write most of the code, but you should be able to understand the systems your engineers operate, challenge architectural decisions around payment rails and cryptographic auth, ask the right questions when something is going wrong, and step into a technical problem when the situation calls for it.
At the same time, we are looking for a manager, not a tech lead with direct reports. Your success will be measured by the quality and output of the team you build, the engineers you develop, and the systems and products they deliver.
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
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.
We want you to love it here. This role is a great fit for you if:
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. You can review a design, understand the 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 without requiring every problem to fit neatly into a single box.
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.
Required Skills & Abilities
Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, low-latency transaction processing, API design, web security, or adjacent areas.
Experience building or operating products involving traditional payment rails, digital wallets, or open authorization/authentication standards (e.g., OAuth, WebAuthn, Web Bot Auth).
Experience operating systems where correctness, reliability, and security matter as much as feature delivery.
A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
Experience partnering closely with Product Management to shape and execute a roadmap.
Experience taking products or major capabilities from an ambiguous opportunity to a clear customer outcome.
Strong written and verbal communication.
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
