Platform Engineering Intern

About us

Harrowside is a 14-person software shop in Charlotte. The founders still answer support tickets. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The internship

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Day to day

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results

Requirements

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $35.50-$49.00 an hour

Perks

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Home office setup stipend
• Learning and development stipend

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Harrowside LLC.