Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, backend services, network services, or infrastructure products in production.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex production services or projects, including architecture, implementation, rollout, and operational outcomes.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, C++, or another language used to build production services.
• Deep understanding of HTTP, APIs, proxies, streaming connections, and distributed-systems failure modes.
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWTs, PKCE, or policy-based access control.
• Experience designing or operating security-sensitive systems, with sound judgment about identity, authorization, credential handling, concurrency, and state management.
• Ability to diagnose difficult production issues using logs, metrics, traces, error reporting, and customer-provided evidence, then drive durable fixes.
• Experience making backward-compatible changes to live systems and managing the risks of deployment and migration.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, influence decisions across teams, and mentor other engineers.

Nice to Have

• Experience with the Model Context Protocol
• Familiarity with the Cloudflare Developer Platform or other serverless edge-computing platforms.
• Experience building gateways, forward proxies, identity systems, developer platforms, or Zero Trust and data loss prevention products.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of globally distributed services that connect MCP clients to authorized upstream MCP servers.
• Own complex features and service improvements from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, observability, and production support.
• Shape technical decisions for MCP Portals, including service boundaries, security controls, compatibility, and tradeoffs among reliability, latency, and resource use.
• Evolve our implementation as the MCP specification changes, planning safe migrations for existing customers and integrations.
• Design and review authentication and authorization flows involving Cloudflare Access, OAuth, identity, credential handling, and delegated access to upstream services.
• Improve the reliability and scalability of multi-tenant systems built on the Cloudflare Developer Platform, using production data to identify and prioritize work.
• Strengthen observability through structured logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts; participate in production support and incident response.
• Lead investigations of complex customer issues across services and teams, identify root causes, and drive fixes that prevent recurrence.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of testing, deployment, and operational practices on the team.
• Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to turn customer needs and emerging standards into maintainable product capabilities.

Perks and Benefits

• Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location with an estimated annual salary range.
• Equity participation in Cloudflare’s equity plan.