Platform Engineering Intern

The Muse

. This internship is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience in platform engineering while delivering meaningful improvements to internal developer tooling, deployment processes, and automation practices.

Posted 5/7/2026internshipRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry Level💰 $30 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaJavaScriptNode.jsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This internship is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience in platform engineering while delivering meaningful improvements to internal developer tooling, deployment processes, and automation practices.
The intern will work on a project within the IT Infrastructure and Integration area, focusing on improving engineering efficiency, standardization, and operational maturity.
The work will expose the intern to modern cloud and DevOps practices in an AWS-based environment and provide experience contributing to real business-critical systems.
Integration Middleware Deployment Promotion Standardization: The intern will help standardize the process for promoting integration middleware code across environments by introducing automated API validation.
Automated Repository Documentation: The intern may work on improving documentation consistency across repositories by defining documentation standards, creating reusable templates, and building GitHub Actions.
Technical Debt Reduction and Platform Templates: The intern may contribute to reducing technical debt by maintaining the API inventory in LeanIX, developing new templates for building AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Basic proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, or Node.js.
Familiarity with agentic workflows, AI/LLM tools, or related automation concepts is preferred.
Exposure to AWS cloud services and cloud-native development practices is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunities to stretch and grow: your professional and personal development matters to us.
Clarity and kindness: you can rely on us to be open, honest and supportive.
Support in good times and bad: we believe in showing up for each other consistently.
A community that cares: we are committed to sustaining a community in which each person feels cared for as an individual.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaNode.jsAWSAPI validationGitHub ActionsAWS CDKautomationcloud-native developmenttechnical debt reduction

Soft Skills

engineering efficiencystandardizationoperational maturitydocumentation consistencyproject contributionhands-on experienceimprovement mindsetcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detail