Product Cost Analyst

About Cloudflare

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.

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.

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. We don't store client IP addresses, 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.

About the Role

We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join our R&D Finance team and help explain what it costs to build, deliver and scale Cloudflare's products. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance and Pricing to turn technical resource usage and infrastructure investment into clear product unit economics and actionable financial insights. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who enjoys moving between financial models, operational data and cross-functional problem solving. You will help improve the data and processes behind our analysis, using automation and AI thoughtfully to make recurring work more reliable and scalable. As the work evolves, there is an opportunity to deepen your ownership of Developer and self-serve product economics.

Available Locations: Austin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO; Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain product cost models that translate compute, storage, bandwidth and AI / inference resource consumption into unit cost-to-serve, with transparent assumptions and documented methodologies.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate new product introductions, architecture changes and shifts in resource usage; quantify cost and margin implications across connected workloads.
• Develop and validate shared-cost allocation analyses with Infrastructure Finance and finance data partners, using relevant consumption and capacity drivers. Distinguish direct costs, shared costs and unused capacity, and reconcile product views to underlying financial totals.
• Support Pricing with reliable cost inputs and scenario analysis for commercial decisions and quoting workflows. Translate changes in hardware generations, bandwidth rates and product architecture into updated assumptions.
• Connect capital investment to product economics by analyzing server costs, deployment timing, useful-life and depreciation assumptions, utilization and capacity across edge, core and accelerated-computing infrastructure, in partnership with Infrastructure Finance and Accounting.
• Contribute to capital and capacity planning through demand-versus-capacity scenarios, investment trade-offs and forecast updates. Explain how deployment timing and workload mix affect near-term costs and longer-term unit economics.
• Produce decision-ready reporting on product costs, unit economics and relevant margin drivers