Site Reliability Engineer Project Intern (Security Engineering)

Responsibilities

  • Ensure reliable operation of ultra‑large‑scale security infrastructure meeting strict SLAs
  • Design and develop automation platforms for security core systems, enhancing observability for rapid fault detection
  • Optimize service reliability, scalability, and performance through systematic improvements
  • Build automated solutions supporting rapid iteration of large‑scale production clusters
  • Participate in OnCall rotation and collaborate with R&D teams on incident resolution

Commitment

Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least a 3‑month internship period.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Undergraduate or postgraduate student currently pursuing a degree/master in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or other STEM disciplines
  • Programming skills in Go, Python, Shell or equivalent
  • Proficient in Linux systems with networking and storage architecture expertise
  • Practical experience with cloud‑native architectures (Kubernetes, containerization)
  • Understanding of DevOps components: Infrastructure (Load Balancers, Nginx), Automation (Ansible, Argo CD), Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong team collaboration skills with ownership mentality
  • Experience with public cloud infrastructure operations (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Cybersecurity product expertise: Anti‑DDoS/WAF/HIDS systems
  • Development experience for large‑scale O'M platforms/tools
  • Big data stack operations: Kafka, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Spark, Flink

Job Information

Compensation Description (Hourly) – Campus Intern. The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $45‑$60.

Benefits

Interns have day‑one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in the first half of the year, 40 if hired in the second half). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for a housing allowance. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Fair Chance (Los Angeles County)

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  • Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
  • Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
  • Exercising sound judgment.
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