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 location: Austin, Texas, San Francisco, CA
Internship Dates: June 22 - September 11
About The Team
The Technical Marketing team works closely with product teams, sales and marketing to ensure our customers understand the technical details of how our products work. Our goal is to ensure the technical buyer and customer understands how Cloudflare products and solutions work in terms of their business needs. We are highly technical and get to touch every aspect of Cloudflare's technology.
About the Role
As a Technical Marketing Intern, you will help accelerate our plans to improve the content and tools we build for technical sales, partners and customers. You will be tasked with gathering feedback from the field, defining what customers are looking to understand and then helping build the videos, demonstrations and other technical assets. Your work will be key to improving our ability to explain to customers the complex technical details which will lead to an increase in sales.
The ideal candidate has a hands on mindset, a get-it-done attitude and is not afraid of challenging the status quo. You should feel comfortable facing a brand new technology and having to read documentation and being hands on with servers, scripts and APIs.
Responsibilities
- Gain experience with all of Cloudflare's amazing technology and work with the people that build it.
- Understand complex technologies and explain them in simple terms and align solutions to customer problems.
- Identify inefficiencies and implement automation to reduce the time it takes for technical sales to learn our solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and objectives, ensuring relevant and impactful content.
- Partner with our Product Management and Special Projects team to improve strategies, products and services.
Skills & Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Marketing, or a related field.
- Available for a full-time 12-week internship, working from our Austin or San Francisco office 3-5 days a week during the summer (May-Aug).
- Strong communication skills. Ability to explain complex concepts in a manner that's understandable without dumbing down the content.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong understanding of AI technologies such as AI agents, MCP servers and LLMs.
- Proficient in operating systems, networking, Internet technologies (SSL/TLS/HTTP/SSH etc) and ability to write code to solve simple problems.
- Previous experience in technical & product marketing/product management is a plus.
- Excellent written and presentation skills. This role demands someone who is gifted in their ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders, including executives, product management, sales, and marketing.
- Self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced, innovative cloud services company.
You can check out our internship blogs to learn more about our program and hear directly from our past interns.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re 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, we've equipped more than 2,400 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 Cloudflare’s 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, we've 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
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