Cloudflare is refreshing its community strategy with two new tracks — Cloudflare Ambassadors and Cloudflare Community Engineers — alongside an additional $1 million in open-source funding aimed at supporting builders, maintainers, and local developer communities. The company said the update is designed to better recognize the people helping shape its platform and the broader Internet, while giving them more direct support, visibility, and resources.
Cloudflare splits the program into community and code
The new program centers on two distinct paths. Cloudflare Ambassadors will represent Cloudflare in their own communities, while Cloudflare Community Engineers will focus on open-source projects that improve the Internet and sit near Cloudflare’s developer ecosystem.
Cloudflare says the effort reflects a simple idea: some of the most valuable work happens when people help other people build. That can mean teaching students how to deploy Workers for the first time, sharing working examples in Discord, organizing local events, or maintaining open-source tools used by thousands of developers.
What Cloudflare Ambassadors will do
Ambassadors will be people already active in their communities, whether on campus, through local organizations, or online. Cloudflare says they may organize meetups, hackathons, workshops, talks, or student groups, publish tutorials, and help others understand what’s possible with Cloudflare’s platform.
Selected Ambassadors will receive support such as credits, marketing assets, technical resources, and other benefits to help their events and community work. They will also get a visible role in Cloudflare’s online spaces, including Discord, so other developers can identify them as people who can help.
- Applications are open now.
- The deadline to apply is September 6.
- Selected Ambassadors will be notified by October 5.
- The 2026–27 cohort can serve for up to two years.
Cloudflare highlighted Sruthi Pereddy, a University of Michigan computer science major and current intern on the company’s Recruiting Ops team, as an example of the kind of enthusiasm it wants to support. Pereddy said she wants to show peers that Cloudflare is “a go-to developer platform” and help students overcome resource constraints so they can turn ideas into reality from day one.
Cloudflare Community Engineers expand open-source support
The second track, Cloudflare Community Engineers, is aimed at people contributing to open-source work that Cloudflare says helps power the Internet. The company noted that much of its developer platform is built on open-source projects or is open source itself, including work on workerd and quiche.
Cloudflare is also adding to its financial backing for open source. It said it is committing an additional $1 million in funding to sponsor and support open-source projects over the next two years. Eligible Community Engineers will receive grants from that fund to continue their work.
The company said the program will not have a maximum term, arguing that open-source maintenance does not fit neatly into annual cycles. Some projects need long-term care, while others require effort at a critical moment. Cloudflare says the new structure is intended to support both kinds of contributions.
Where the funding starts
Cloudflare said the initial focus will be developers working in the orbit of its own open-source projects, including:
- Astro
- Agents SDK
- EmDash
- Hono
- Vinext
Community Engineers will also get a special designation in Cloudflare’s Discord server and other online spaces. Applications for the grants will open later.
The company pointed to its sponsorship of TanStack as a previous example of how open-source support can help a project stay stable while continuing foundational work. TanStack creator Tanner Linsley said the backing has given the project room to invest in core libraries, docs, tooling, contributors, and larger efforts such as TanStack Router and Start.
Cloudflare’s Discord is getting a more formal structure
Cloudflare is also changing how it manages its Discord community, which it says has grown to nearly 100,000 users since launching in 2020. The server has become a major place for developers to ask questions, share projects, and offer feedback.
To keep the community healthy as it grows, Cloudflare is forming a new Discord committee made up of Cloudflare staff and Ambassadors. The company said this is less about manual moderation and more about helping connect users with the right people, events, and technical expertise.
Cloudflare said it has been building tools and automations to reduce spam and malicious links, and that some of those protections will be open-sourced soon. The company says the goal is to make Discord a place that is easier to use, contribute to, and trust.
Why the refresh matters
The update shows Cloudflare trying to formalize something many developer companies struggle to scale: community support that is useful without becoming purely promotional. By separating local advocacy from open-source maintenance, the company is signaling that both kinds of labor deserve recognition.
It also suggests Cloudflare wants its community spaces to do more than host announcements. The company says Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and staff together should help surface expertise, convene conversations, and create a more direct link between builders and the teams shaping Cloudflare’s products.
For developers already working with Cloudflare, the changes could mean more support for meetups, clearer pathways to contribute, and stronger backing for open-source work that often happens quietly in the background.
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