Site Reliability Engineer (Remote Internship)

*** We welcome all USA Talent to apply. This role is 100% remote. ***

Are you graduating with a Computer Science degree in the next few years and looking for experience in a fast moving, innovative environment? If you are a driven, hardworking, technical individual, we might have the perfect internship opportunity for you.

As a part of a reliability-focused team you will help exemplify, measure and raise the reliability of products and operational capabilities by creating tools, collaborating with teams, evangelizing best practices and encouraging learning across the organization.

You'll work closely with engineers across many disciplines to advocate for sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility with them in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing production issues - we believe strongly that engineering teams take operational responsibility for their products and work hard to support them in this.

Who we are

Perceptyx's mission is simple: We help employees and their organizations thrive.

How do we do that? We facilitate the ongoing conversation between employees and their company to drive success. We are passionate about helping organizations listen to and act on what matters most to employees. When employees are happy, everyone is happy! We also employ an incredible, diverse staff of professionals with the knowledge and drive to move every employee engagement survey project swiftly from vision to reality.

Requirements

What you’ll do

• Be an evangelist for SRE best practices throughout the product and engineering organization
• Improve systems observability by introducing new instrumentation such as dashboards, application and system metric capturing, enhanced logging and alerting
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Work closely with product squads to assist them in adopting and improving their use of existing tools and practices such as SLOs, alerting, runbooks, synthetic testing, and general observability
• Monitor user-facing systems using best practices, with reliability and scalability in mind
• Engage with other teams at Perceptyx to evaluate tooling, iterate on our incident response process, and hold effective and blameless postmortems
• Work with engineering teams to debug and fix issues
• Participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands

Who you are

• You are eager to learn fast and to influence people around you in a positive way
• You like to observe and understand systems behavior, to catch inconsistencies, to automate and continuously improve your observability instrumentation
• You are passionate about reliability practices and excited to help teams improve how they maintain their own reliability
• You work well with cross-functional, agile software development teams
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and use them to document your work
• Familiarity with the principles of site reliability engineering, such as eliminating toil, embracing risk, simplicity, and release management is a plus
• Familiarity with and passion for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery is a plus

Education/Qualifications

• You are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science having completed 1-3 years of relevant education
• Have strong technical skills
• Have a desire to learn and contribute
• Have basic experience with Python, Go or similar
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Terraform is a plus

Program Details:

• Will run from for about 12 weeks at $30hr
• Progress towards completion of bachelor's degree by May 2026 / May 2027 You must possess unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship

Benefits

Setting You Up For Success 🧑🏻‍💻👩🏾‍💻

• Invest in your career with access to 65k+ courses through our Learning Management System, Perceptyx Academy. This is the destination to advance your skills, knowledge and capabilities through experience, programs and technology!
• Full subscription to The Calm App: #1 app for Sleep, Meditation, and Relaxation, with over 100 million downloads

Perceptyx Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:

We celebrate diversity and an inclusive environment. Perceptyx is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Perceptyx’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting,hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, merit, and business needs. Perceptyx is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.