Software Engineer (Backend)

About this Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Software Developer to join our this role you will be responsible for designing solutions and executing the roadmap with a particular focus on enabling Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption across Enterprise Applications. You will play a pivotal role in connecting our AI assistants to our internal systems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with leadership to organize a backlog of MCP servers needing to be built for various Enterprise Applications.
• Design and develop MCP servers for both SaaS and on-premise applications ensuring secure and efficient context retrieval.
• Provide feedback and feature enhancements to improve the patterns by which we develop MCP servers. Enable other developers who may follow.
• Partner closely with our internal MCP server rollout team to co-develop solutions or explore new opportunities for secure enablement.
• Use your experience working cross-functionally to work closely with system owners so existing processes can be adapted to work with MCP development outcomes.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience with design development and streamlining of Enterprise processes using automation and technical enablement.
• Specific experience in developing MCP servers for SaaS and on-prem applications.
• Advanced programming experience with Typescript Python or Go including Microservice REST open API specs and Integration design.
• Strong knowledge and experience with configuration management tools and Infrastructure as Code methods such as Terraform Ansible Chef etc.
• Strong knowledge and experience with build-deploy pipeline development and best practices in tools like GitLab or GitHub.
• Experience and expertise in Agile methodology.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in written and spoken English.
• Prior experience working on enterprise MCP engineering teams.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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