Infrastructure Software Engineering Intern
Winter infrastructure and site reliability internship focused on building and operating minimal, on-premises backend infrastructure for a semiconductor fabrication facility. The role requires systems programming, Linux, networking, distributed systems, and hands-on infrastructure or automation experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve infrastructure-as-code tooling for complex, multi-environment deployments.
- Help manage and maintain on-premises server fleets, ensuring high availability and efficient resource utilization.
- Monitor and maintain system performance and health across diverse production workloads.
- Design, implement, and refine alerting systems to identify issues before they affect users.
- Build automation to reduce operational toil.
- Implement secure secret management.
- Debug production issues across the stack.
- Partner with engineering teams to understand infrastructure needs and deliver robust, scalable solutions.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated software-engineering skill.
- Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, or other systems-oriented languages.
- Understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed-systems concepts.
- Experience building or maintaining substantial infrastructure, automation, or tooling projects through personal, academic, or professional work.
- Interest in systems reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, or performance optimization.
- Portfolio or GitHub demonstrating software-engineering projects is required.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with configuration management or fleet management at scale.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
- Familiarity with performance profiling and capacity planning.
- Experience with database administration, backup strategies, or disaster recovery.
- Exposure to secret-management systems such as Vault or SOPS, or to PKI.
Compensation and Benefits
- Hourly compensation equivalent to an annualized range of $114,000–$131,000, depending on experience and education; actual earnings vary with hours worked.
- Housing stipend, daily lunches, dinners three times per week, stocked kitchen, learning and development opportunities, commuter benefits, paid time off, visa sponsorship, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), and life and disability insurance.
Skills
Rust, Go, Python, Linux, Networking, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure As Code, Prometheus, Grafana, Elk Stack, Datadog, Vault, SOPs, Pki
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