Public Policy Intern

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.

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 Locations: Brussels

About the Role

Because of the scope, complexity, and diversity of the company’s work, our Public Policy team members must be flexible, talented and able to work collaboratively across multi-functional teams to find and present policy solutions, to carry the Cloudflare narrative and promote the public policy brand externally.

Cloudflare’s Public Policy team helps the company by anticipating regulatory challenges, acting as an external advocate for Cloudflare on priority policy issues and identifying opportunities to build relationships with external partners.

The team is relatively small but growing, and is often tasked with addressing global policy issues on top of local market priorities. This is a fast-moving work environment with goals that are closely linked to business priorities, however, policy issues are typically within the areas of cybersecurity, AI, data protection/privacy, connectivity and intermediary liability.

We are looking for an intern for a six-month period to help support our European Public Policy team, based in Brussels. The start date for this role is foreseen on September 7, 2026.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the intern will consist of working day-to-day with the European Public Policy team across a wide range of work streams and projects including:

Help the Public Policy team to maintain internal knowledge databases, draft EU stakeholder maps and support with further automation of issue tracking

Support the team in evaluating EU policy and legislative developments, and support work to understand the impact on Cloudflare across its full product set, including attending relevant events (for instance in the European Parliament and conferences) and providing internal updates to the Public Policy team

Participate in developing talking points, policy narratives and presentation materials for use at external events and meetings and for other communication purposes (company blog, position papers, consultation responses etc)

Help compile materials for use by Cloudflare's sales and marketing teams to respond to policy-related questions raised by our customers and potential customers

Support work to build and maintain relationships with key policy makers and officials from the European Institutions, as well as within any identified national markets

Take part in engagement with business and civil society entities, including trade association