This program is for students who will be graduating in December 2018 or Spring 2019.

SendGrid is a proven cloud-based customer communication platform that successfully delivers over 25 billion emails each month for Internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber. We are looking for a talented and passionate individual to help manage our world-class SaaS email delivery infrastructure. You will be part of a team that ensures the reliability and performance of a large and diverse tech stack. You will directly engage with development teams to provide Ops-relevant advice and feedback, and serve as an information conduit back to other Ops team members. Additionally, you will continually improve the velocity of our deployment pipeline through automation and monitoring.

Our 90-day summer program provides you with the ability to work on fun and challenging projects that make a real impact on our customers, code, products, and revenue. You’ll develop and apply skills that will impact your career in a meaningful way. You’ll have the opportunity to hang out with and get advice and mentorship from our executives, both inside and outside the office. You’ll participate in fun intern outings, and learn what it means to work at a culture-first company through our focus on being Happy, Humble, Hungry, and Honest. We provide you with a competitive wage, free lunch every day, mentorship, and the possibility of future employment.

The home of our founders, our Orange location is primarily an engineering office where our core email infrastructure - the services, APIs, and customer portal that process billions of transactions per day - are built.

What You’ll Do

• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Use configuration management tools to automate SendGrid infrastructure
• Author tools that reliably manage infrastructure. We're looking for someone to write clean, testable, reusable code.
• Support our existing production cluster management system while you improve it
• Work on our server image configurations, collaborating with core server engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, failover and scale
• Focus on learning and skill growth
• Responsible for your task and story completion
• Learn and apply SendGrid engineering processes
• Create documentation for your own work output
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, review Jira and ask questions as needed

About You

• You don’t just learn how things work, you learn why
• You are familiar with 1 or more programming languages
• You are a novice in some or all of the following areas:
• Linux system administration
• TCP/IP
• Configuration management
• Monitoring and metrics
• Work under close supervision or instruction
• Know how and when to escalate when you are stuck on a task
• Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders
• You are currently enrolled as a junior in a full-time Bachelor's in Computer Science or related technical field, returning to BA/BS program or enrolled in another full-time degree program after completion of the internship

Bonus Points

• Chef
• Ruby or Go
• KVM/libvirt
• Kafka
• ElasticSearch
• Load balancing
• Performance engineering (strace, dtrace, low-level performance debugging)
• Service discovery