MIT- Software Engineer Intern | Helios

Software Engineer Intern — Helios

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.

Helios is SingleStore’s fully managed cloud database service. The team builds the 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. The team partners closely with Database Engine, Infrastructure, Security, Developer Experience, and Product teams to deliver a reliable experience for customers.

As a Software Engineer Intern, you will spend 12 weeks working with a small, collaborative engineering team. You will contribute to meaningful projects throughout the product lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing and production deployment.

You will work alongside experienced engineers who are invested in your growth. You will gain practical experience building cloud services, solving distributed-systems problems, and understanding how production software is developed, operated, and improved.

• 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 areas such as control-plane services, data-plane systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, developer tooling, monitoring, or customer-facing cloud experiences.

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

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