# Infrastructure Software Engineering Intern - Fall

**Company:** [Atomicsemi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/atomicsemi)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $110k – $132k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Go, Linux, Systemd, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault, SOPs, Infrastructure As Code, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-04-22

> Infrastructure Software Engineering Intern designs, builds, and manages on-premises backend infrastructure for a semiconductor fab, focusing on bare-metal Linux, automation, monitoring, and reliability using Rust and Go. Requires strong systems programming skills and a portfolio of real projects; pursuing BS in CS/CE.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and evolve our infrastructure-as-code tooling to manage complex, multi-environment deployments
- Help manage and maintain our fleet of on-premises servers, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization
- Monitor and maintain system performance and health across diverse production workloads
- Design, implement, and refine alerting systems to catch issues before they impact users
- Build automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency
- Implement secure secret management
- Debug production issues across the stack
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and deliver robust, scalable solutions

## Required Experience
- Pursuing a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering
- Strong programming skills in **Rust**, **Go**, or other systems-oriented languages
- Solid understanding of **Linux** systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems concepts
- Experience building or maintaining non-trivial infrastructure, automation, or tooling projects (personal, academic, or professional)
- Interest in one or more of the following areas: systems reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, performance optimization

## Nice-to-have
- Experience with configuration management or fleet management at scale
- Background in monitoring and observability tools (**Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **ELK stack**, **Datadog**)
- Familiarity with performance profiling and capacity planning
- Experience with database administration, backup strategies, or disaster recovery
- Exposure to secret management systems (**Vault**, **SOPS**) or PKI

## Compensation
Software Interns are paid an hourly rate equivalent to an annualized range of **$97,000-132,000**, depending on experience and education level. This range assumes a 40-hour workweek and includes up to 10 hours of pre-approved weekly overtime, paid at 1.5x the base hourly rate.

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