**Who this is for** This internship is for students seeking hands-on experience in the end-to-end procurement lifecycle within a global tech company. You'll rot
Work type: hybrid
Location: Hybrid
Salary: $24/hr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This internship is for students seeking hands-on experience in the end-to-end procurement lifecycle within a global tech company. You'll rotate through sourcing, contracts, and procurement operations, gaining a comprehensive understanding of how the company manages external partnerships and an introduction to digital transformation and AI in procurement. **Key highlights** The program offers a 360-degree view of procurement, from identifying vendors and negotiating deals to managing contracts and optimizing procure-to-pay processes. A unique aspect is the AI Innovation Project, where you'll identify and propose an automated solution for a procurement bottleneck using AI tools. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Are eager to learn about various aspects of procurement, including sourcing, contracts, and operations. - Possess an interest in digital transformation and how AI can be applied to business processes. - Are keen to work on a project to identify and solve efficiency challenges using technology. - Can contribute to understanding and optimizing workflows within a global organization.
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: Austin Texas or San Francisco
### The Opportunity
Join our Procurement team for a comprehensive, 360-degree rotation across the entire procurement lifecycle. This isn't just a "support" role—you will be embedded in three core teams to understand how a global organization sources, secures, and manages its external partnerships.
### The Rotation
As part of our company-wide AI initiative, you will be tasked with identifying an efficiency bottleneck within the procurement lifecycle. Using tools like Gemini or OpenCode, you will design and propose (or build!) an automated solution. Examples include:
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](https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-free-expression-online/): 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](https://1.1.1.1/): We released[ 1.1.1.1](https://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](https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/privacy/public-dns-resolver) 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.