CloudKit Infrastructure Engineer Intern - Mentored, Flexible Hours

clickclick; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 50,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Mentorship from senior engineers

Access to hardware

CloudKit environments

Job summary

clickclick is seeking a CloudKit Infrastructure Intern to help build and test CloudKit-backed data flows for reliable, privacy-minded product experiences across Apple platforms. This part-time internship emphasizes infrastructure work with mentorship and a defined project scope.

You will collaborate with engineers on data modeling, synchronization, diagnostics, and recovery paths, contributing to scalable cloud services while preserving user privacy.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled as an undergraduate in CS/SE or related field.
• Must return to school after internship or use as final graduation requirement.
• Experience writing Swift and building Apple-platform projects.
• Basic understanding of CloudKit, client-server APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging, communication, and ability to reason about ordering and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Build and test CloudKit-backed data flows for product features that need secure state, delivery, and recovery behavior.
• Improve model design, indexing assumptions, synchronization paths, and background update handling.
• Help make cloud-backed features resilient to network changes, account state, stale data, retries, and partial failures.
• Add diagnostics, fixtures, and automated tests that make infrastructure behavior easier to validate and debug.
• Collaborate with application engineers to integrate cloud infrastructure into user-facing workflows without exposing implementation complexity.
• Document operational assumptions, failure modes, and debugging practices for the engineering team.

Skills

Swift

CloudKit

Distributed systems

Debugging

Communication

Education

Undergraduate CS/SE student

Tools

XCTest

CloudKit Dashboard

Job description

clickclick is seeking a CloudKit Infrastructure Intern to help build and test CloudKit-backed data flows for reliable, privacy-minded product experiences across Apple platforms. This part-time internship emphasizes infrastructure work with mentorship and a defined project scope.

You will collaborate with engineers on data modeling, synchronization, diagnostics, and recovery paths, contributing to scalable cloud services while preserving user privacy.