IPAM 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.
As an Intern on the IPAM/FLIP team, you will write software, build microservices and solve complex distributed systems problems. You will be responsible for building the next generation of software-defined networking on our platform: providing flexible, yet simple, primitives that our customers have come to love.
We want an intern who is passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love.
IPAM/FLIP team is looking for an Intern to build out and expand on FLIPd which is an MVP Go service. This service is envisioned to be the future of our Floating IP product which is currently in Rails. It will be a great opportunity to get your hands dirty in Go, MySQL and build out micro services with all the latest technologies related to Observability i.e. LightStep, Prometheus, Grafana.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Solving problems with distributed systems to reduce bottlenecks, single points of failures and inter-dependencies of our many regions.
- Designing and building highly efficient micro-services to enable new features and internal tooling around the virtual network stack.
- Diving deep into the ocean of highly available & fault-tolerant virtual networking.
- Using technologies and tools such as: Linux, Go, Open vSwitch, Prometheus, Ansible, MySQL, and others!
What We'll Expect From You:
- Expertise with at least two of the following languages: Go, Perl, Python, C/C++
- Expertise building distributed systems using a microservices architecture
- Knowledge of networking and network layers
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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