Senior Systems Engineer, MCP Server PortalsPosted today€66K–€91K

The opportunity

Cloudflare MCP Server Portals give organizations a secure, centralized way to connect AI agents to internal and third-party tools. As a Senior Systems Engineer on the MCP Portals team, you will lead the design, delivery, and operation of distributed systems that authenticate…

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.