Automation Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

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 Location: Austin

People Innovation Lab — Cloudflare People Team

Reports to: Lead, AI Transformation & Strategic Initiatives (People & Places)

About the Role

Join the People Innovation Lab to build and deploy smart tools for the People organization. This role sits within the people in places function under the lead for AI transformation and strategic initiatives. This role is focused on helping us to automate the processes that bog people down and moving us towards an agentic future. 

Key focus:

• Identify and eliminate manual workflows across the People team.
• Build diverse automation solutions (Google Workspace, Workers, background jobs, multi-step agents).
• Utilize AI coding tools (e.g., OpenCode) and build autonomous agents.
• Strong fundamentals and fast execution are key.

What You'll Build & Do

• Build:

• Workflow automations (Google Workspace, APIs, third-party platforms).

• Event-driven automations using Cloudflare Workers.

• AI-powered tools (LLM APIs like Gemini, Workers AI) for reasoning (summarization, routing).

• Reusable components and early-stage, stateful, autonomous agents.

• Clean documentation.

• Do:

• Audit workflows for high-value automation.

• Build and ship automations in JavaScript/TypeScript (Google Workspace, Workers).

• Integrate AI/LLM APIs; use AI-assisted development (OpenCode).

• Explore and apply Cloudflare's full automation stack (Workers, Durable Objects, AI Gateway, Vectorize).

• Participate in agile ceremonies and present work.

Requirements

• Minimum:

• Pursuing/equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.

• Proficient in JavaScript or Python; writes clean code.

• Experience with REST APIs and structured data.

• Independent problem-solving.

• Fluent with AI tools.

• Preferred:

• Experience building automations (Zapier, Make, n8n, Apps Script, custom code).

• Prior LLM/AI API integration experience.

• Familiarity with event-driven/serverless architecture.

• Exposure to agent frameworks/multi-step AI workflows.

What We Provide

• Platform onboarding and hands-on AI-assisted development experience.
• Dedicated manager, feedback, and real production automations.
• Portfolio artifact (production automations, agent-building track record).

The Team's Vision

The team is building AI agents for the People organization that can reason, act, and coordinate without constant human input. You will contribute to this foundation and gain firsthand experience.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

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: 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: 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. Here’s the deal - we don’t 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 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.

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