Infrastructure Engineering Intern

About us:

More than 430 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it.

Overview:

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Responsibilities:

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.

What we're looking for:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $45.00 - $56.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Learning and development stipend.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Company laptop.
• Paid sick time.
• Home office setup stipend.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Mid-South Interactive.