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Software Engineer: Cloud & Distributed Backend Intern Opportunities for University Students, Redmond

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Internship🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Intern role applying engineering principles to solve complex problems, determine user requirements, and improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.

Role type

Cloud & Distributed Backend Intern

Builds

Scalable software products and services

Domain

Cloud computing, distributed systems, backend infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Programming in C#, C++, Rust, Java, Go, or Python; Data structures and algorithms; Operating systems, networking, distributed systems, databases, or cloud computing concepts; APIs, microservices, containers, or infrastructure services

Preferred skills

Performance optimization, reliability engineering, observability, debugging, scalable system design

Responsibilities

Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems; Work with stakeholders to determine user requirements; Incorporate new engineering methods into work processes; Review developments to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance; Drive consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Seniority

Intern

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