Infrastructure Strategy & Analytics Intern

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Collaborate with engineers and data planners to automate infrastructure management processes, enhance planning tools, and gain hands-on software engineering experience at scale.
About Us

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. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal 

About the Role

Cloudflare is seeking a Summer Intern to join our Infrastructure team. We build tools and systems that help plan and automate how Cloudflare’s global infrastructure grows over time. Our work connects real hardware—servers, switches, racks, power, and space—with software that models supply, demand, and deployment schedules.

As an intern, you’ll write code to improve internal planning workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and make infrastructure data more accessible to partner teams. This role is a great fit for students interested in data analytics and gaining exposure to real-world systems and operations.

This internship blends software engineering with real-world infrastructure problems. You’ll ship code that helps accelerate physical deployment at global scale, not just simulated or theoretical projects.

What You'll Do

You will contribute to areas such as:

  • Building scripts, services, or small applications to automate planning and lifecycle tasks
  • Working with data related to infrastructure capacity and deployments
  • Creating internal tools or dashboards to improve visibility and support decision-making
  • Improving data quality and reducing manual processes
  • Collaborating with engineers to integrate planning logic into existing systems

Projects are scoped to support learning, mentorship, and iteration throughout the internship.

Who You’ll Work With

You will collaborate with engineers and planners across:

  • Infrastructure Capacity Planning
  • Supply Chain & Procurement
  • Data Center Operations
  • Hardware Lifecycle Engineering

Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience:

We’d love to see:

  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree, ideally in fields such as: Engineering (e.g.Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial), Computer Science / Software Engineering, Information Systems / Information Technology, Mathematics / Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Physics, Economics / Finance / Business Administration
  • Available for a full-time 12-week internship, working from our Lisbon office 3-5 days a week during the summer (May-August)
  • Programming experience in at least one language (Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar), as well as experience with data querying tools (e.g., BigQuery)
  • Professional proficiency in English
  • Interest in data analytics, data, or infrastructure
  • Curiosity about how large-scale systems are built and operated
  • Ability to make small decisions and propose solutions independently
  • Willingness to learn, ask questions, and collaborate

Bonus Points:

Any of the following are a plus, but not required:

  • Experience building small tools or projects (coursework counts!)

  • Exposure to APIs, data pipelines, or databases

  • Interest in cloud computing, hardware, logistics, or operations

  • Experience with visualization or dashboard frameworks

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!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected] or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

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