Backend Software Engineer Intern — Build Global-Scale Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly housing stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Commuter benefits

Lunch catered onsite

Intern-exclusive events

Cross-functional collaboration

Lunch & Learns with executives

Mentorship opportunities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking software engineering interns to join our team for an exciting, world-spanning internship. As an intern with the Backend Engineering team, you will collaborate across the full software stack to build the latest iterations of our flagship security platform, deployed globally.

You will work on scalable systems, with opportunities to interact with Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, SQS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, all while gaining hands-on experience in Go

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field and graduating by June 2028.
• Familiar with Python or Golang, distributed systems, operating systems, AWS, Docker, etc.
• Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world
• Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
• Work with Postgres relational databases
• Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS
• Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes
• Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely
• Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures
• Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision
• Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed Systems

AWS

Docker

REST APIs

Linux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking software engineering interns to join our team for an exciting, world-spanning internship. As an intern with the Backend Engineering team, you will collaborate across the full software stack to build the latest iterations of our flagship security platform, deployed globally.

You will work on scalable systems, with opportunities to interact with Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, SQS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, all while gaining hands-on experience in Go