Systems 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 designing and operating secure systems at scale.
We are looking for someone who has experience with a subset of our stack (Python or Go required), is familiar with most of our tools, is comfortable working with a distributed team, and is excited about our mission. At DO, we believe in: creating simple, yet powerful, foundations (with đź’•) from which our community can build. The Systems team delivers on this mission by ensuring our hypervisors are performant, reliable, and secure.
Our Stack is C, Chef, Docker, Go, libvirt, Linux (Ubuntu), K8s, KVM, Python, OVS, QEMU. Our tools are Concourse, Elasticsearch, GitLab, Grafana, GSuite, Jira, Looker, Prometheus, and Slack. The Systems team is currently made up of ~20 engineers located across the US, Canada, and Germany with one engineer in the NY office and is supported by 3 Engineering Managers.
What You’ll Do:
- Learning what it takes to operate a cloud and the importance of observability
- Gaining experience continuously deploying internal tooling on Kubernetes (K8s)
- Expanding our Slack bot (Python/Go running on K8s) to provide refined views of our key metrics
- Adding interactive capabilities to our slack bot to answer questions on demand
What We’ll Expect From You:
- Experience working asynchronous (e.g. over Slack) with team members
- Experience writing secure, testable and robust code
- Experience developing apps for others in Python or Go
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Any Kubernetes, Helm, Jira API, or Slack API experience is a plus
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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