Software Engineer Intern (Traffic Infrastructure) - 2027 Summer

Notre Dame; San Jose (CA); Sur place; USD 51 000 - 73 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Housing allowance eligibility

Résumé du poste

Notre Dame in San Jose, CA, seeks a student intern to assist in designing, developing, and operating infrastructure components for edge PoPs, including Kubernetes and Ingress, with a focus on performance, reliability and security.

You will gain hands-on experience delivering cloud-native features from requirements through rollout, while learning engineering best practices, and contribute to building observability tools, metrics, logs, tracing, and automation for incident response in a

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE or related field.
• Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, OS, networks.
• Programming experience in Go, C, or Rust ( coursework, projects, or open-source).
• Familiarity with Linux and containers, distributed systems, or networking concepts.
• Growth mindset, ownership, and eagerness to learn in a collaborative environment.

Responsabilités

• Assist in design, development, and operation of infrastructure components for global edge PoPs including Kubernetes/control plane, virtualization/containers, and Ingress/Gateway.
• Contribute to delivering cloud-native features from requirements gathering through implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Help build observability and troubleshooting tools (metrics, logs, tracing, profiling) and contribute to automation for incident response.

Connaissances

Go

C

Rust

DS & Algorithms

Linux

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Outils

Kubernetes

Containerd

Cilium/eBPF

Description du poste

Your Role

Here’s what you will be doing:

• Assist in the design, development, and operation of infrastructure components for global edge Points of Presence (PoPs), including Kubernetes/control plane, virtualization/containers, and Ingress/Gateway, with guidance from senior engineers, focusing on performance, reliability, and security.
• Participate in delivering cloud-native features from requirements gathering through implementation, testing, and rollout, while learning engineering best practices.
• Help build observability and troubleshooting tools such as metrics, logs, tracing, and profiling, and contribute to automation that improves incident response efficiency.

About You

The company is looking for candidates who meet the following qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Solid foundation in software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and computer networks.
• Programming experience in one or more languages such as Go, C, or Rust, demonstrated through coursework, personal projects, or open-source contributions.
• Familiarity with Linux and a basic understanding of containers, distributed systems, or networking concepts.
• Strong problem-solving skills, a growth mindset, ownership, and eagerness to learn in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Prior internship, co-op, or research experience related to backend or systems development, cloud-native technologies, or infrastructure.
• Hands‑on exposure to containers and Kubernetes through coursework, side projects, or internships, including deploying applications, basic cluster operations, service discovery, or Ingress/Gateway.
• Contributions to cloud-native open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Containerd, or Cilium/eBPF.
• Deeper Linux knowledge including kernel, scheduling, TCP/IP, routing, and iptables/nftables.
• Coursework, projects, or interest in CDN, live streaming, RTC, or other edge or traffic‑intensive architectures.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly rate of $45.
• Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 hours if hired in the second half).
• Housing allowance eligibility for interns not working 100% remotely.