Cloudflare
Large (~4,000)
GitLab
Large (~2,500)
Best For
Cloudflare
Best for: Engineers who want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure
GitLab
Best for: Engineers who want a fully remote, async-first culture with radical transparency
Ratings
CloudflareGitLab
3.9
3.9
Overall
3.7
3.9
Work-Life Balance
4.0
4.0
Culture & Values
3.8
3.8
Comp & Benefits
3.5
3.5
Senior Mgmt
3.8
3.7
Career Opps
👍 72% Recommend
👤 77% CEO Approval (Matthew Prince)
👍 75% Recommend
👤 70% CEO Approval (Sid Sijbrandij)
Culture Values
Cloudflare only
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate🎯 Direct Product Impact🌱 Learning & Growth
GitLab only
🌐 Remote-Friendly📡 Async-First🔓 Open Source⚖️ Work-Life Balance
Shared
🪟 Transparent
Pros & Cons
Cloudflare
- Mission-driven company building critical internet infrastructure — meaningful work with real impact
- Smart colleagues and a culture that values innovation, shipping quickly, and technical excellence
- Compensation can lag behind FAANG competitors, especially base salary
- Some teams experience high pressure and demanding workloads with uneven management quality
GitLab
- Best-in-class all-remote culture — truly async-first with genuine flexibility
- Radically transparent company with a public handbook and open processes
- Revenue organization has seen quota chaos and low morale
- Some leadership instability at the C-suite level
Bottom Line
Cloudflare
Choose Cloudflare if you want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure with sharp engineers — but compensation lags FAANG and pressure can be high.
GitLab
Choose GitLab if you want the gold standard of all-remote work with public handbook and async processes — but expect bureaucracy at scale and comp below top-tier.
Open Roles
Cloudflare — 469 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
226
💻 Engineering
127
📋 Product
19
📣 Marketing
18
📊 Data
10
⚙️ Operations
7
👤 HR / People
6
⚖️ Legal
6
🧠 ML / AI
4
💰 Finance
1
GitLab — 195 jobs
💻 Engineering
79
💼 Sales / GTM
67
📋 Product
10
⚖️ Legal
5
📊 Data
4
🎨 Design
4
📣 Marketing
4
👤 HR / People
2
⚙️ Operations
2
Summary
Cloudflare scores 3.9/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.7 work-life balance rating. GitLab scores 3.9/5.0 overall with a 3.9 WLB. They’re tied on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Transparent. Cloudflare also emphasizes Engineering-Driven, Ship Fast & Iterate, Direct Product Impact, Learning & Growth. GitLab also emphasizes Remote-Friendly, Async-First, Open Source, Work-Life Balance.
On the hiring front, Cloudflare has 469 open roles and GitLab has 195 open roles.