About the role#
As an Onshape Site Reliability Engineering Intern, you will join the team responsible for operating and scaling the Onshape global service. You will work alongside full-time engineers to improve the reliability and scale of our cloud-based platform. You will contribute to projects that are deployed directly to customers, often seeing your work in production before your internship concludes.
What you'll do#
- Write and develop new code to improve the Onshape platform.
- Collaborate with the operations team to monitor, tune, and troubleshoot the service.
- Participate in code reviews as both a reviewer and a reviewee.
- Fix bugs in both new and existing codebases.
- Work with deployment automation, metrics, logging, and infrastructure technologies such as MongoDB, ZooKeeper, Elasticsearch, and Jetty.
What you'll need#
- Enrollment in a degree program for Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Proficiency in Java development.
- Prior experience working on a software engineering team.
- Experience with Linux systems, distributed computing, or security is a plus.
Location & details#
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time, paid internship ($32 - $36 per hour).
- Note: This position does not provide employment-based immigration sponsorship.
About PTC
PTC is a software development company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It provides solutions for product lifecycle management, computer aided design, and the industrial internet of things. The company employs between 5,001 and 10,000 people. It serves manufacturers by supporting digital transformation and operational productivity.
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