MIT- Software Engineer Intern |Helios|
SingleStore · United States
About this role
**Software Engineer Intern — Helios (SingleStore)** **About SingleStore** SingleStore is a cloud-native distributed SQL database built for real-time applications, analytics, and AI. Our platform brings transactions and analytics together so organizations can work with data quickly, reliably, and at scale. **About Helios** Helios is SingleStore’s fully managed cloud database service. The team builds cloud-native services that create, manage, scale, monitor, and protect customer workspaces and databases across major cloud providers. Helios engineers work across the control plane, data plane, reliability, observability, developer tooling, and customer-facing cloud experiences—partnering closely with Database Engine, Infrastructure, Security, Developer Experience, and Product teams. **About the Internship** As a Software Engineer Intern, you’ll spend **12 weeks** with a small, collaborative engineering team. You’ll contribute to meaningful projects across the product lifecycle—from design and implementation through testing and production deployment. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers who are invested in your growth, gaining practical experience building cloud services, solving distributed-systems problems, and learning how production software is developed, operated, and improved. **What You’ll Do** - Develop features and services that support the lifecycle of customer workspaces and databases - Build automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backups, and recovery - Improve service reliability, availability, observability, and operational efficiency - Design and implement backend services and APIs for cloud database management - Investigate and resolve performance, scalability, and correctness issues - Write production code, tests, documentation, and technical designs - Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, debugging, and team planning - Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners Depending on your team and project, you may work on control-plane services, data-plane systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer tooling, monitoring, or customer-facing cloud experiences. **Required Qualifications** - Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field - Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design - Programming experience in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, or a similar language - Understanding of operating systems, distributed systems, networking, or databases - Familiarity with Linux or Unix-based systems - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with teammates - Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to learn Prior professional experience is not required. Candidates may have developed skills through coursework, research, projects, internships, or open-source contributions. **Preferred Qualifications** - Coursework or project experience in distributed systems, cloud computing, databases, networking, or operating systems - Experience building backend services, APIs, automation, or developer tools - Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, or public cloud platforms - Experience with observability, monitoring, debugging, or performance analysis - Experience contributing to production software or substantial technical projects - Interest in reliability engineering and operating
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