Software Engineering Intern (Infrastructure, DevOps)

Super; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Yearly learning & development allot

Generous equity options

Bi-annual performance & compensation

RRSP & 401k plan

Health, dental, vision insurance from

Parental leave programs

Wellness reimbursement

Unlimited PTO

Office in Toronto

Permanent remote flexibility

Work-from-home allowance

Job summary

Super is offering an Infrastructure Engineering Intern position for the Winter Term (January 4 – April 30, 2027). You will join a fast-moving, supportive team that ships real projects.

The role focuses on managing infrastructure around services, databases, and caches using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Istio, and AWS. You’ll collaborate with a distributed team, participate in team meetings, and contribute to tooling, monitoring, and cost-saving initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience with POSIX-based operating systems.
• Basic understanding of cloud services and networks (VPC, DNS, HTTP).
• Desire to automate repetitive tasks and improve developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Join infrastructure engineering team and contribute to building, deploying, and monitoring services.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm and Istio to manage infrastructure.
• Help accelerate deployments and improve developer happiness through tooling and automation.
• Contribute to cost-saving initiatives and performance optimizations across systems.
• Identify and catch errors early with monitoring and alerting.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud basics

Monitoring

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Datadog

GitLab

Python

Bash

Terraform

Helm

Istio

Job description

• Term: This internship is for the Winter Term: January 4 - April 30, 2027
• Interning at Super.com is an exciting chance to dive into the world of tech and startups, work on real projects, and learn a ton along the way. From day one, interns are fully part of the team - contributing to work that actually ships and gets used
• It’s a fast-moving yet super supportive environment where you’re encouraged to ask questions, try new things, and grow through hands-on experience
• Many interns say it’s the most they’ve learned in such a short time! Even though we’re remote, the culture is fun, collaborative, and well-connected- you’ll be included in team meetings, Slack chats, and social events, so you’ll never feel like you’re doing this alone
• We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Intern with 4-16 months of experience to join our infrastructure engineering team. Our team is responsible for the infrastructure around building, deploying, and monitoring our services, databases, and caches
• Work with cutting edge infrastructure tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Istio
• Accelerate development across the company with faster, safer, and more frequent deploys
• Meaningfully improve developer happiness and productivity across the company with better development tools and workflows
• Contribute directly to the bottom line with cost savings initiatives and optimizations
• Catch errors and performance issues early with automated monitoring and alerting
• Our Tech:
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Tens of containerized microservices written in Python and/or JS processing a total of 15k+ requests per second
• Kubernetes for deploying services
• Infrastructure as Code in Terraform and Helm
• Datadog and Incident.IO for logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Postgres for storage and Redis for caching
• Gitlab for version control and CI/CD
• Python, Bash, and Docker for local development workflows and CI/CD jobs

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Yearly learning & development allowance
• Generous equity options
• Bi-annual performance & compensation reviews
• RRSP & 401k employee contribution plan
• Health, dental, & vision insurance on day one
• Parental leave programs
• Wellness reimbursement
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Unlimited PTO (yes, really!)
• Recharge days throughout the year
• Office in Toronto
• Permanent remote flexibility
• Work-from-home allowance

• You learn quickly, regardless of the languages and technologies used
• You have experience and comfort with POSIX-based operating systems
• You have some knowledge of how networked services in the cloud work: VPC, IP, TCP, DNS, HTTP, etc
• You have a sixth sense for spotting waste (in money, time, CPU cycles) and eliminating it
• You’ve used docker before and understand what it is and what problems it solves
• You abhor repetitive manual processes and are excited to automate them away