Cloudflare Innovation & Technology Culture

Cloudflare empowers teams to rethink how applications are built by developing technologies that simplify software development without sacrificing performance or scalability. Employees say the company is continually innovating to remove infrastructure complexity, enabling developers to build faster and focus on creating better products.

“Developers should be able to just focus on the code. Someone else should deal with everything else from setting up infrastructure through making that infrastructure fast and scalable. While we’ve made some architectural decisions in building Workers that enable us to do this better than anyone else, what today is about is really honing Workers in on the needs of developers.

We want Workers to bring the dream of serverless to life — of letting developers only worry about bugs in their code.”

Cloudflare fosters a culture of innovation by encouraging every employee to contribute ideas that improve products and solve customer challenges. Leaders say innovation is a company-wide responsibility, with teams learning directly from customers, collaborating across functions and continuously building new solutions to keep pace with evolving needs.

“At Cloudflare, we serve millions of customers across industries from small teams to some of the world’s largest companies. Their problems constantly evolve. For us to keep pace and grow with them, we have no choice but to learn and build faster.

In practice, we make this possible by including every member of the entire company in the product journey. We all share a single goal of solving customer problems, and that means that anyone can and should contribute to how we do that, regardless of their title or role. No team is in a supporting function. No one is discouraged from contributing an idea. We learn from customers, we listen to each other and we build together.”