Legal Intern – Commercial Legal (Fall 2026)

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Cloudflare is seeking a Legal Intern for its Commercial Legal team for the Fall 2026 internship period. This internship will focus on commercial contracting and procurement within the technology sector. The intern will support the Commercial Legal team, which manages global procurement operations, vendor relationships, and commercial contracting strategy. This involves negotiating enterprise agreements, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, and managing legal and commercial risk. The role also offers opportunities to support the Sales Legal team with customer contracts. The internship is 12 weeks long and requires full-time availability (40 hours per week). Available internship dates are September 14 - December 4, or September 28 - December 18. The position is based in the Austin, TX office, with a requirement to be in the office 3-5 days a week.

Requirements

Recently graduated from, or currently enrolled as a 3L in, an ABA-accredited law school, with a graduation date of 2026 or 2027.
Strong demonstrated interest in commercial law, technology transactions, contract negotiation, and business operations.
Excellent legal research and writing skills, with the ability to distill complex contract terms into clear, business-friendly advice and risk assessments.
Self-starter mentality, comfortable navigating ambiguity and thriving in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
Ability to commit to a minimum 12-week fall internship, starting in September.
Must be available full-time/40 hrs per week.
Must be able to work in the office 3-5 days a week in the Austin office.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience (internships, clinics, or pre-law career) in procurement, commercial transactions, vendor management, or in-house legal departments at a technology company.
Coursework or experience in contract law, commercial transactions, or technology/SaaS licensing.
Prior experience in software development, programming, or technology product management.
Familiarity with Cloudflare's products, cloud computing infrastructure, SaaS business models, and technology vendor ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Review and analyze vendor agreements, procurement contracts, SaaS agreements, and other commercial transactions, identifying key business and legal terms, risks, and opportunities for negotiation.
Assist in developing and updating internal procurement guidelines, vendor intake processes, and contracting playbooks to streamline commercial operations and ensure consistency across the organization.
Support due diligence efforts for new and existing vendors, including reviewing vendor questionnaires, insurance certificates, compliance documentation, and conducting risk assessments for data processing, security, and business continuity.
Draft legal memos, redline summaries, contract playbook guidance, and negotiation position documents to support the Commercial Legal team in high-value technology and services procurements.

Benefits

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
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.
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.
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.
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