Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Site Reliability Engineer Intern

As an intern, you will work closely with experienced Site Reliability Engineers and Development teams to gain hands-on exposure to real-world production systems, monitoring, automation, and incident management processes.

6-Month Internship Accomplishments

• Gain a strong understanding of Poshmark’s technology stack, infrastructure, and core product functionality.
• Learn the fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering, including monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident response.
• Get hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools used within the CloudOps organization.
• Assist in building or enhancing automation scripts, dashboards, or internal tools.
• Contribute to small-scale projects under guidance from senior engineers.
• Observe and learn the on-call process and incident management workflows (no primary on-call ownership).

Responsibilities

• Assist in monitoring the health, performance, and availability of Poshmark’s services.
• Support senior engineers in deploying, maintaining, and improving infrastructure and services.
• Help create or update dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for production systems.
• Participate in troubleshooting basic production issues and post-incident reviews.
• Work closely with development teams to understand application behavior and operational needs.
• Follow best practices for reliability, security, and automation.
• Document learnings, processes, and tools clearly for team use.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Basic understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.
• Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, or similar).
• Basic knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure fundamentals).
• Interest in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Willingness to learn new tools, technologies, and operational practices.
• Good problem-solving skills and a proactive learning mindset.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Technologies You’ll Be Exposed To

• Languages & Frameworks:

  Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js

• Web & Middleware:

  Nginx, Tomcat, HAProxy

• Datastores & Messaging:

  MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch

• Cloud:

  Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, etc.)

• DevOps & SRE Tools:

  Terraform, Jenkins, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible