Infrastructure and Site Reliability Intern

Location: On-site in Austin or San Francisco, United States

Compensation: $114,000–$131,000 annualized, paid hourly, plus a housing stipend

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage hardware startup that designs and builds the hardware, software, fabrication facilities, tools, and components used to make chips.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and manage on-premises backend infrastructure for a semiconductor fabrication facility.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code tooling for complex, multi-environment deployments.
• Maintain on-premises server fleets, system availability, resource utilization, and production health.
• Build alerting and automation systems that reduce operational toil and identify issues before they affect users.
• Implement secure secret management and debug production issues across the stack.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver robust and scalable infrastructure solutions.

Requirements

• Pursuing a BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or demonstrating exceptional software engineering skills.
• Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, or another systems-oriented language.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience building or maintaining non-trivial infrastructure, automation, or tooling projects.
• Interest in systems reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, or performance optimization.
• A portfolio, such as GitHub, is required when applying.

Nice to have

• Experience with configuration management or fleet management at scale.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and capacity planning.
• Experience with database administration, backups, or disaster recovery.
• Exposure to Vault, SOPS, or PKI.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage hardware startup with solid funding and experienced advisors.
• Preferred internship commitment of 4–8 months, beginning in January.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Housing stipend, daily lunches, dinners three times per week, and a stocked office kitchen.
• Weekly learning and development opportunities, commuter benefits, paid time off, and holiday and sick time.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life, and disability insurance.