Infrastructure Systems Intern - Rust/Go, On-Prem

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 114,000 - 131,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Daily lunches

Stocked office kitchen

Weekly learning & development

Commuter benefits

Paid time off

Visa sponsorship

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, TX, is seeking an Infrastructure and Site Reliability Intern for the winter term. The internship starts in January for 4–8 months, focusing on building and managing our on‑prem backend infrastructure near the hardware.

A portfolio showing real projects is required for applicants. You’ll work with bare‑metal Linux, systemd, and binary tools, with Rust and Go as primary languages.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, or other systems-oriented languages.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience building or maintaining non-trivial infrastructure, automation, or tooling projects (personal, academic, or professional).
• Interest in one or more of the following areas: systems reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our infrastructure-as-code tooling to manage complex, multi-environment deployments.
• Help manage and maintain our fleet of on-premises servers, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization.
• Monitor and maintain system performance and health across diverse production workloads.
• Design, implement, and refine alerting systems to catch issues before they impact users.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Implement secure secret management.
• Debug production issues across the stack.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Skills

Rust

Go

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

Systems programming

Infrastructure tooling

Education

BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK stack

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, TX, is seeking an Infrastructure and Site Reliability Intern for the winter term. The internship starts in January for 4–8 months, focusing on building and managing our on‑prem backend infrastructure near the hardware.

A portfolio showing real projects is required for applicants. You’ll work with bare‑metal Linux, systemd, and binary tools, with Rust and Go as primary languages.