CX Software Engineering Intern
Have you ever wanted to intern inside the cloud?
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want an intern who is passionate about helping us bring our open source CLI to more users.
As our official command line interface, doctl is our community’s preferred way to communicate with DO products.
We’re looking for an intern who is excited about Go, CLIs, open source, and is excited to work alongside the API/CLI team to complete this project.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with doctl
- Create and automate the doctl Chocolatey package.
- Integrate the automated doctl Chocolatey package into our existing CI/CD pipeline.
- Along with the API/CLI team, help maintain the public APIs and CLI that teams of developers use to interact with DigitalOcean features.
- Work openly/publicly (via GitHub) with open source software.
What We’ll Expect From You:
- Empathy for our developer users and the customers/stakeholders you support.
- Experience with REST (and optionally Terraform).
- Understanding of version control tools.
- Excitement about working with Go, gRPC or similar technologies.
- Comfortable working with the command line
- (Optional) Comfortable developing for Windows environments and an interest in developing for its package manager, Chocolatey
- Good communication skills
Why You’ll Like Being An Intern At DigitalOcean:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to be an intern here, and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We will offer intern meetups and outings throughout the program to connect you with your fellow interns and the DO community.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
This role is a summer 2020 internship located in our NYC office.
Department: Engineering
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