Cloudflare to eliminate 224 San Francisco jobs in latest blow to tech workforce

Cloudflare plans to cut 224 jobs at its San Francisco headquarters this week, one of the city's largest layoffs disclosed so far this year.

The cuts are set to take effect Friday at the company's office at 101 Townsend St., according to a filing with the California Employment Development Department.

A March filing from Atlassian listed 252 San Francisco job cuts, making Cloudflare's the city's second-largest disclosed layoff of 2026.

The new filing offers the first local figure for Cloudflare's previously announced restructuring, which the San Francisco technology company said would eliminate more than 1,100 jobs worldwide.

Cloudflare, which provides internet security, performance and cloud networking services, announced the cuts last Thursday.

In a message to employees, co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn said the company was reshaping itself for what they called the "agentic AI era." They said Cloudflare's use of AI had grown more than 600% in the previous three months, with employees in engineering, human resources, finance and marketing running "thousands of AI agent sessions each day."

"That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era," they wrote.

The company said the layoffs were not a cost-cutting move or a reflection of individual performance, but part of a broader effort to redesign how teams and roles work.

Cloudflare has not publicly said how many Bay Area employees it had before the cuts. The company reported 5,156 full-time employees at the end of 2025 in its most recent annual filing, meaning the global reduction amounts to roughly one-fifth of its workforce.

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