Recruiter

Job Title: Recruiter

Available Locations: Bengaluru Karnataka India

About the role At Cloudflare we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. To do that we need the best engineering and product minds of the next generation. As the lead for our India Entry Level Recruiting efforts you will be the strategic face of Cloudflare at top universities across the country.

You will own the end-to-end strategy for hiring of our 2026 intern cohort bridging the gap between academic potential and professional excellence. You wont just fill positions; you will identify and court the future architects of the internet ensuring they have an exceptional candidate experience from their first interaction on campus to their first day in the office.

What youll do You will serve as a strategic partner to our leaders in Bangalore designing a comprehensive campus hiring roadmap for the 2026 season. You will move beyond transactional recruiting to build deep relationships with placement cells at premier institutes (IITs NITs IIITs and select private universities).

This role is a blend of strategy event management and full-cycle recruiting. You will organize hackathons tech talks and assessment drives while maintaining a high bar for talent. You will act as a cultural ambassador helping students understand why Cloudflare is the best place to launch their careers in the SaaS and infrastructure space.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning: Design and execute the India campus hiring strategy for the Class of 2026 including selecting target universities defining hiring targets and setting timelines.

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for interns and new graduatesfrom resume screening and online assessments to coordinating interview drives and extending offers.

• Stakeholder Management: Partner closely with hiring managers and engineering leadership in Bangalore to understand technical requirements and ensure interview panels are calibrated and prepared.

• Campus Relations: Cultivate strong year-round relationships with university placement officers faculty and student bodies to position Cloudflare as a Day 0 / Day 1 employer of choice.

• Brand Building: Plan and execute engaging campus events including pre-placement talks tech showcases and hackathons ensuring strong brand recall among students.

• Candidate Experience: Champion a candidate-first approach ensuring every studentregardless of the outcomehas a transparent respectful and positive interaction with Cloudflare.

• Data & Reporting: Track key university recruiting metrics (offer acceptance rates diversity mix pass-through rates) to continuously optimize the hiring funnel.

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• • Experience: Minimum of 4 years of recruiting experience with a dedicated focus on University/Campus recruiting in the India market.

  • Industry Background: Must have prior experience working within Product/SaaS/Tech companies. You understand the nuances of hiring for high-bar engineering roles (System Design Distributed Systems Security).

  • Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume hiring drives without compromising on quality or candidate experience.

  • Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; you can command a room during a pre-placement talk and negotiate effectively with stakeholders.

  • Tooling: Proficiency with modern Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) like Greenhouse or Lever and university hiring platforms (e.g. HackerRank CodeSignal).

  • Agility: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced high-growth environment where priorities can shift; you are a self-starter who takes ownership.

  • Passion for DEI: A strong commitment to building diverse teams and implementing strategies to ensure a diverse pipeline of student talent.

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!

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