Infrastructure Intern: Build Production-Grade Systems

Sycamore; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Sycamore is seeking an Infrastructure Intern to work on real production software during a summer internship, partnering with engineers to own a project from scope through deployment.

You will learn the foundations of our Kubernetes-based platform, build tooling that production teams depend on, and gain experience operating multi-tenant systems in a fast-paced environment. This internship emphasizes learning, ownership, and real impact.

Qualifications

• Solid software fundamentals and ability to design data models and APIs.
• Ability to test own work and reason about failure paths.
• Clear communication and willingness to ask for help when stuck.
• AI-native mindset and comfort with using modern coding agents.
• Able to learn unfamiliar infrastructure and operate multi-tenant systems.

Responsibilities

• Own a real project end to end from scope to deployment.
• Write production-quality code with the same standards as full-time engineers.
• Test your work, including challenging paths.
• Document your work so future developers can maintain it.
• Collaborate with teammates and seek help when needed.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Testing

Debugging

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

AI-native mindset

Education

Undergraduate or graduate in CS/engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

GKE

Knative

Envoy

Pulumi

Helm

PostgreSQL

Cloud SQL

Python

Go

Job description

Sycamore is seeking an Infrastructure Intern to work on real production software during a summer internship, partnering with engineers to own a project from scope through deployment.

You will learn the foundations of our Kubernetes-based platform, build tooling that production teams depend on, and gain experience operating multi-tenant systems in a fast-paced environment. This internship emphasizes learning, ownership, and real impact.