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 LOCATIONS * Austin, US ROLE SUMMARY Cloudflare is seeking an experienced, action-oriented leader to serve as the primary strategic network lead for our Latin America (LATAM) infrastructure footprint. This role acts as a critical liaison between Cloudflare and LATAM’s major Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecom operators, commercial datacenter providers, and transport carriers. You will provide strategic leadership and regional expertise to align network growth, scale infrastructure capacity, and support high-performing digital services across the region. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Executive Partnership Alignment: Build and maintain strategic relationships with executive stakeholders across top regional ISPs, telecommunications operators, and infrastructure partners to drive scalable network alignment and long-term stability. * Capacity Scaling & Peering Expansion: Drive initiatives to scale up localized peering and transit capacity with major eyeball networks across LATAM to support growing traffic demand, improve performance, and enhance latency. * Infrastructure Strategy & Colocation Liaison: Collaborate with regional datacenter, colocation, and transport providers to ensure optimal infrastructure positioning, redundancy, and expansion readiness in key regional hubs. * Technical & Operational Leadership: Act as an advisor to technical and operations teams on network health, traffic management, and routing optimization to safeguard network integrity and service reliability. * Regional Market Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as an internal subject matter expert for global network engineering, transport, and commercial teams, providing market context and operational guidance across diverse LATAM markets. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal commercial, channel, and engineering leadership to align infrastructure enablement with strategic regional goals. MUST-HAVE SKILLS * Leadership Experience: 15+ years of strategic leadership experience in telecommunications, interconnection/peering, datacenter colocation, or digital infrastructure across LATAM. * Partner Relationships: Extensive experience engaging with senior leadership at major telecommunications operators and service providers across key LATAM markets. * Technical SME: Strong understanding of IP routing (BGP), IXPs, DNS, traffic engineering, and content delivery networks. * Multilingual Capability: Professional fluency in English and Spanish is required; Portuguese fluency is preferred. * Collaboration & Execution: Proven track record of driving cross-functional alignment and managing complex strategic initiatives across regional and global stakeholders. WHAT WE OFFER * Opportunity to shape the growth and resilience of global internet infrastructure across Latin America. * High-visibility strategic leadership role working with key industry partners. * A dynamic, fast-paced environment at the forefront of digital connectivity and edge computing.   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! 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. 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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