People Team Software Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)

Available Location: Austin

Join the People Innovation Lab to rapidly build and deploy internal enterprise applications and tooling for the Cloudflare People & Places organization focused on making work smarter.

• You will build production features in a sprint-based team.
• Work is guided by the IT Customer Zero team and deployed on Cloudflare infrastructure.
• Strong fundamentals and fast ramp-up ability are essential.

• Build and ship full-stack features clean production code and integrations for internal tools.
• Write and review code work in sprints (managing tickets/blockers) and coordinate with the other intern.
• Effectively use AI-assisted coding tools.
• Demo working products to leadership.

Minimum Requirements

• Pursuing CS Software Engineering or related degree (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to build and demonstrate a working web application.
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and comfortable with one back-end language/framework.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end web app functionality (HTTP APIs data persistence deployment).
• Experience with shared codebases (Git meaningful commits).

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with serverless/edge computing.
• Experience with a modern front-end framework (React Vue Svelte etc.) and/or MCPs/APIs data modeling or systems design (for back-end seat).
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor Windsurf OpenCode).
• Prior sprint-based team experience.
• For UI seat: experience with design systems Figma or strong interaction design sense.

• Opportunity to solve real problems with AI and code.
• Mentorship dedicated manager regular 1:1s and structured support.
• Real sprint work with production deliverables.
• Access to Cloudflares full intern cohort (community events network).
• A portfolio artifact: production-deployed code and a shipped product demo.

The team is building AI agents for the People organization that can reason act and coordinate without constant human input. You will contribute to this foundation and gain firsthand experience.

We value fundamentals curiosity and fast learning.

Internship Duration: 12 weeks

Schedule: Full-time (3 days per week in office)

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!

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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