Global Trade Compliance Intern (Summer 2026)

Available Locations: Lisbon Portugal

About Cloudflares Global Trade Compliance Team

Cloudflares Global Trade Compliance team supports the companys global infrastructure by overseeing the import and export of hardware across multiple regions. Because Cloudflares hardware deployment model is unique the team plays an important role in helping the business navigate cross-border requirements with strong global oversight risk mitigation and regulatory awareness.

The team works across functions to support not only day-to-day execution but also trade-related research data analysis process improvement and compliance with applicable import and export rules. This internship offers exposure to the intersection of global operations regulatory compliance and strategic project work in a fast-moving environment.

What youll do

• Support assigned projects for the Global Trade Compliance team
• Collect organize and analyze trade-related data for reports trackers and internal summaries
• Conduct research on trade operational or regulatory topics and prepare concise summaries of findings
• Assist with development of process documentation workflow materials and team trackers
• Help identify data gaps inconsistencies or follow-up items and escalate findings as needed
• Support projects exploring how AI tools can improve workflow and process efficiency
• Prepare clear written summaries presentations or project materials for internal use

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Current undergraduate student pursuing a degree in international business business supply chain logistics economics global studies data analytics project management or a related field
• Strong analytical organizational and written communication skills
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets and structured data
• Proficiency with Google Workspace especially Sheets Docs and Slides
• Interest in research process improvement and project-based work
• Interest in AI tools and technology-enabled workflows is a plus
• Prior trade compliance experience is a plus but not required
• Ability to commit to a minimum 12 week summer internship.
• In the office 3-4 days a week in the Lisbon 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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