Data and Technology - Legal Privacy Intern (Summer 2026)
Position Overview
Internship Description
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: Washington D.C.
About Cloudflare's Legal Team
Ensuring the privacy of personal information is core to Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet. Our legal team helps the company deal with complex matters by anticipating regulatory changes, and guiding the company around the complications and distractions that arise from such obstacles. Our Legal Privacy intern will help foster our unique corporate philosophy and approach, in which the security and privacy of our customers’ data are paramount.
About the internship program
The ideal Legal Privacy intern is passionate about making the Internet a better place. You will work alongside experienced legal team members to partner with them in developing legal resources and supporting legal initiatives that help improve Cloudflare’s privacy and data compliance posture. We are looking for interns who are curious, proactive, and interested in devising innovative and elegant solutions to complicated privacy legal challenges.
What you’ll do
- Research and advise on privacy developments and data protection laws impacting global technology companies and work collaboratively across multiple functions to assess the impact of such laws and developments on Cloudflare’s business
- Help develop resources such as policies, processes, and playbooks for global privacy and data protection compliance, including the following topic areas:
- Data breach notification requirements
- Critical infrastructure requirements
- Data localization and sovereignty requirements
- Public sector IT service provider certifications
- Privacy biometric compliance
- Marketing privacy requirements
- HR/employment privacy compliance
- Interact with engineers and product subject matter experts on legal privacy and infrastructure topics that impact the development and operation of Cloudflare products
- Contribute to blogs, white papers, and marketing materials on Cloudflare’s privacy and data protection posture and key privacy issues and features
- Help advise on the privacy aspects of Cloudflare’s marketing strategy, including analysis under consumer protection laws like the U.S. CAN-SPAM law and the EU’s ePrivacy Directive.
- Support legal privacy counsel in coordinating and advising on Cloudflare’s response to privacy and infrastructure incidents
- Contribute to comments on pending legislation relating to privacy, data protection, and critical infrastructure in the EU and United States
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- Basic understanding of major global and regional privacy laws, such as th...
Perks & Benefits
Practice Area
Data Privacy Law
Application Contact
Contact: Cloudflare Internship Coordinator
Application Deadline
June 22, 2026
Employment Type
Intern
