Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Criteo; Paris; On-site; EUR 8,900 - 11,000; Part time

Job summary

CRITEO in Paris is offering an internship in Platform Engineering within a cutting-edge adtech environment. You will work with a small team, mentored to design and deliver features across observability, data processing, and deployment domains.

You will gain hands-on experience on Linux, OOP, and modern cloud-native tooling, contributing to production code used by millions of users. A strong emphasis is placed on collaboration, learning, and practical impact.

Qualifications

• Final year student in System/Software Engineering or related field.
• Interested in developing web-based applications on Linux.
• Experienced with object-oriented programming.
• Strong communicator and team player.

Responsibilities

• Assist Platform teams in maintaining and evolving a large computing platform.
• Collaborate with a mentor to design and implement features and best practices.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions and workshops.
• Contribute production-ready code that may affect millions of users.
• Explore subjects such as Observability, Data Processing, and CD/Automation during internship.
• Learn and apply CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices.

Skills

Object Oriented Programming

English fluency

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Final year of study in System/Software Engineering or related fields

Job description

What if, in your next adventure, you were surrounded by people who, like you, look for an unlimited playground to explore, share, and test, would you care to hear more? You've opened the right door! As an R&D team, making sure your ideas are heard and encouraged is what we strive to do!

What You'll Do:

The Platform teams keep one of the largest computing platforms in the AdTech world functioning like clockwork. They keep our products running using a broad selection of technologies, like large scale data compute & storage services (Hadoop, SQL & NoSQL), streaming (Kafka), platform as a service (Chef, Mesos), identity management (Kerberos) and analytics (Hive, Druid, Vertica), as well as an extensive monitoring/observability infrastructure.

For the Internship, you will be in a team of 5-7, working closely with your mentor to drive your project, design and ensure best practices are applied. You can ask questions and participate in all knowledge sharing sessions/workshops, etc. You are encouraged to actively voice your ideas whilst learning how to build and ship quality code into production which will likely affect millions of users instantly.

During your internship (6 months) and according to your choice, skills and interest, you can tackle one of the following subjects/ teams:

• Observability: Select, test and integegrate a reporting tool with the current stack: Prometheus / Graphite / Gafana / Elasticseach / Kibana. Migrate Grafana to containers and integrate with SSO. Build a log streaming interface
• Data Processing: Be part of a team that builds our BigDataFlow platform and writes code to provide insight, give the platform users info about changes impacting their datasets (2) and even hint them about optimization opportunities.
• Distributed System SDKs: Smart cache invalidation in a distributed system.
• Continuous Deployment: Implement a mutation testing solution that is integrated into the Criteo CI/CD pipeline.
• Product Reliability Engineering: Migrate admin handlers' UI to Angular and help develop a load testing pipeline.
• Rivers: Create a Streaming Portal UI.
• Data Development Cycle: Leverage the data that we scrape from all our data processing systems to provide automatic monitoring and alerting and in-depth analysis to data producers so that they can understand the sources of delays and make better decisions on the design of their pipeline dependencies.

Who You Are:

• You are in your final year of study in System/Software Engineering or related fields.
• You are interested in developing web-based applications and working on Linux environment.
• You are experienced in Object Oriented Programming.
• You are a problem solver, a fixer, and a creative technologist. We believe coding is a talent and a passion, not just a skill.
• You are a strong communicator and a team player who can work efficiently with others.
• You are fluent in English

We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!

Who We Are:

Criteo is the global commerce media company that enables marketers and media owners to deliver richer consumer experiences and drive better commerce outcomes through its industry leading Commerce Media Platform.

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices around the world or from home, our incredible team of 3,600 Criteos collaborates to develop an open and inclusive environment. We seek to ensure that all of our workers are treated equally, and we do not tolerate discrimination based on race, gender identity, gender, sexual orientation, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, political opinion, pregnancy, migrant status, ethnicity, marital or family status, or other protected characteristics at all stages of the employment lifecycle including how we attract and recruit, through promotions, pay decisions, benefits, career progression and development. We aim to ensure employment decisions and actions are based solely on business-related considerations and not on protected characteristics. As outlined in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we strictly forbid any kind of discrimination, harassment, mistreatment or bullying towards colleagues, clients, suppliers, stakeholders, shareholders, or any visitors of Criteo. All of this supports us in our mission to power the world’s marketers with trusted and impactful advertising encouraging discovery, innovation and choice in an open internet.

Why Join Us:

At Criteo, we take pride in being a caring culture and are committed to providing our employees with valuable benefits that support their physical, emotional and financial wellbeing, their interests and the important life events. We aim to create a place where people can grow and learn from each other while having a meaningful impact. We want to set you up for success in your job, and an important part of that includes comprehensive perks & benefits. Benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo. When determining compensation, we carefully consider a wide range of job-related factors, including experience, knowledge, skills, education, and location. These factors can cause your compensation to vary.