Site Reliability Engineering Intern

Calix

Site Reliability Engineering Intern working on cloud operations and reliability for Calix products. Gain hands-on experience in monitoring, incident management, and automation tools.

Posted 4/28/2026internshipRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry Level💰 $24 - $35 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSGrafanaKafkaLinuxMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresPrometheusPythonShell ScriptingTCP/IPTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assist in monitoring and maintaining reliability of cloud‑based services and platforms.
Support day‑to‑day SRE operations including incident investigation, root cause analysis, and post‑incident documentation.
Participate in 24/7 rotational shift coverage, under supervision, to support monitoring, alert triage, and operational readiness.
Help build and enhance automation tools and scripts using Python and Shell.
Contribute to observability initiatives using metrics, logs, and traces (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).
Assist in managing and troubleshooting databases (relational and/or NoSQL) with guidance from senior engineers.
Support reliability and performance analysis for Kafka or event‑streaming systems, including basic troubleshooting and monitoring.
Work with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform) to provision and validate environments.
Assist with CI/CD pipelines and environment deployments.
Create and maintain runbooks, dashboards, and operational documentation.
Collaborate with software engineers and platform teams to improve system resilience and scalability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's Degree program majoring in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong fundamentals in Linux/Unix systems and command-line usage.
Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).
Familiarity with Python, Shell scripting, or similar languages.
Basic knowledge of databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) including queries and schema concepts.
Willingness to participate in 24/7 rotational shifts as part of a structured learning and support model.
Good problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn large-scale systems.
Able to work for the complete summer break (May - August or June - September).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional development opportunities
Exposure to cloud platforms
24/7 operational experience

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonShell scriptingLinuxUnixKafkaTerraformCI/CDdatabasesMySQLPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

problem-solvingeagerness to learncollaboration