Public Policy Intern

Available Locations:Brussels Belgium

Public Policy at Cloudflare

Because of the scope complexity and diversity of the companys 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.

Cloudflares 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 data protection/privacy connectivity and intermediary liability.

What Youll Do

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 9 March 2026.

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 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 Cloudflares 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 relevant 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 associations of which we are an active member
• Support in providing daily/real-time and other updates to colleagues from the Cloudflare Public Policy Legal Trust & Safety Teams and other internal stakeholders

The position will require an active self-starting individual with an academic background a knowledge of and a curiosity for our business in particular cyber security connectivity/telecoms content policy and privacy issues. Some prior work or internship experience within a (technology) company or association and/or within the EU institutions working on relevant policy topics will be an asset. Perfect knowledge of English as a working language (written & oral) is required. Knowledge of French is an asset.

The position is remunerated and some limited travel within Europe may be required.

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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