Cloudflare
Large (~4,000)
Vanta
Large (~1,400)
Best For
Cloudflare
Best for: Engineers who want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure
Vanta
Best for: Engineers and salespeople who want top-of-market comp at the category leader in security compliance and can handle a meeting-heavy, high-intensity pace
Ratings
CloudflareVanta
3.9
3.8
Overall
3.7
3.3
Work-Life Balance
4.0
3.9
Culture & Values
3.8
3.8
Comp & Benefits
3.5
3.6
Senior Mgmt
3.8
3.6
Career Opps
👍 72% Recommend
👤 77% CEO Approval (Matthew Prince)
👍 76% Recommend
👤 80% CEO Approval (Christina Cacioppo)
Culture Values
Cloudflare only
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🌱 Learning & Growth🪟 Transparent
Vanta only
💎 Strong Comp & Equity
Shared
🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate🎯 Direct Product Impact
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
Vanta
- Strong compensation rated 4.3/5 — best category score
- Market-defining product in security compliance automation
- Brutal meeting culture pushing work into nights and weekends
- Virtually no AEs hit quota — targets unrealistically high
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.
Vanta
Pays extremely well and owns its market niche, but the meeting-heavy culture and low WLB score (3.3/5) signal this is not for anyone seeking balance.
Open Roles
Cloudflare — 525 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
245
💻 Engineering
152
📋 Product
25
📣 Marketing
13
📊 Data
12
👤 HR / People
8
⚙️ Operations
5
⚖️ Legal
4
🧠 ML / AI
4
🎨 Design
2
💰 Finance
2
Vanta — 169 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
73
💻 Engineering
50
📋 Product
9
🎨 Design
7
📣 Marketing
5
📊 Data
4
⚙️ Operations
2
👤 HR / People
1
⚖️ Legal
1
Summary
Cloudflare scores 3.9/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.7 work-life balance rating. Vanta scores 3.8/5.0 overall with a 3.3 WLB. That’s a 0.1-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Ship Fast & Iterate, Direct Product Impact. Cloudflare also emphasizes Engineering-Driven, Learning & Growth, Transparent. Vanta also emphasizes Strong Comp & Equity.
On the hiring front, Cloudflare has 525 open roles and Vanta has 169 open roles.