Network Acquisition Manager, APAC

About this role

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: Singapore or Sydney

About Cloudflare

At Cloudflare, we have a mission to help build a better Internet. Today, Cloudflare's network is one of the world's largest, powering trillions of requests per month. We protect and accelerate any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.

About the Role

The Network Acquisition Manager, APAC within the Network Strategy team plays a foundational role in expanding and optimizing Cloudflare's network connectivity across the Asia Pacific region. Working in close partnership with the APAC Interconnection Manager, you will help drive the business direction and growth strategy for Cloudflare's backbone in the region, executing against — and helping shape — our regional network strategy.

A core focus of this role is growing Cloudflare's international backbone — scaling the major arteries that connect APAC's hub markets to the rest of the world, extending reach into the region's fastest-growing markets, and securing capacity at scale for Cloudflare's next phase of growth.

This role operates on an AI-first model that automates routine work and turns data into decisions. You'll use AI agents and tooling to extract and clean data, generate and track LOAs/contracts/tickets, and surface cost and performance insights, so your time goes to securing the right capacity at the right economics rather than manual processing. It is ideal for an experienced network-acquisition professional who pairs hands-on lifecycle execution with the commercial sophistication to negotiate capacity at scale, and who uses AI to multiply their impact across global Network Strategy.

What You'll Do

This role owns the full-lifecycle procurement of high-capacity network transport services essential to expanding Cloudflare's footprint across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. You will source and manage the following key infrastructure services, applying network design principles for resiliency and redundancy:

• Metro Dark Fiber: Procurement of unlit fiber within major metropolitan areas to establish high-capacity, dedicated connectivity between data centers and Points of Presence (PoPs).

• Managed Wavelength Services (Terrestrial): Sourcing high-bandwidth, dedicated capacity (primarily 100Gbps and higher) over domestic land routes where lighting and maintenance are managed by the provider.

• Subsea International Private Leased Circuits (IPLC) & Cable Capacity: Acquiring and managing capacity over subsea cable systems — from leased IPLCs through to large-scale, long-term capacity rights — to provide reliable, low-latency international connectivity between continents and major markets across APAC.

International Backbone Growth & Capacity at Scale

• Drive scale on Cloudflare's major international backbone arteries — strengthening regional interconnection through key hub markets such as Singapore and Tokyo that connect APAC to the rest of the world — and position the backbone to scale capacity ahead of regional demand.

• Negotiate new and expanded connectivity into fast-growing markets such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, and Taiwan, extending Cloudflare's reach, resiliency, and performance across the region.

• Independently lead standard and mid-size large-capacity acquisitions — including IRUs and bulk capacity purchases — and support the Interconnection Manager on the largest, most complex IRU and fractional subsea cable-ownership negotiations (e.g., quarter- and half-fiber-pair deals).

Backbone Growth & Regional Strategy (in partnership with the Interconnection Manager)

• Partner with the APAC Interconnection Manager to drive the…