Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Role overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will join an 11-week Summer Internship Program designed to give you hands-on experience, expand your professional network, and build core industry skills. This full-time opportunity (40 hours per week) runs from June through August 2027. CarGurus operates on a hybrid working model, and candidates should expect to work out of our Boston, MA office 60% of the time (approximately three days per week).

What you'll do

• Design, implement, maintain and deploy observability-related systems that cover the full stack: Application & infrastructure telemetry, Application & infrastructure logs, Metric visualization platforms, Alerting management
• Help scale how our organization observes and operates across 200+ engineers and hundreds of services and artifacts, producing over 125 million log events and 4 million time series metrics per day
• Team up with SREs to refine observability needs regarding incidents and postmortems
• Educate and promote best-practices throughout the engineering organization

What you'll bring

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, with eligibility to complete a full-time internship.
• Hands-on Linux experience (familiarity with the linux CLI)
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or another cloud platform
• Familiarity with scripting or development in either Python, Java, Go, or shell
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and interest in Kubernetes
• Familiarity or interest working in critical production environments
• Familiarity or interest in incident response procedures and operations
• A highly motivated individual that is willing to learn and has good collaboration skills
• You have a special passion for software engineering, are willing to innovate and move quickly
• Bonus: Familiarity with Terraform or another cloud orchestration tool
• Bonus: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Concourse
• Bonus: Familiarity with IP network routing, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls

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