Infrastructure Software Engineering Intern - Summer - Austin, United States
$114,000 - $131,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is for an Infrastructure and Site Reliability Intern responsible for designing, building, deploying, and managing on-prem backend infrastructure that powers a semiconductor fab. The infrastructure philosophy focuses on bare-metal Linux, systemd, and single file binaries, utilizing Rust, Go, and Python.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve infrastructure-as-code tooling for multi-environment deployments.
- Manage and maintain on-premises servers to ensure high availability and optimal resource utilization.
- Monitor and maintain system performance and health across production workloads.
- Design, implement, and refine alerting systems to proactively address issues.
- Build automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
- Debug production issues across the stack.
What you'll need
- Pursuing a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or demonstrated exceptional skill in software engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, or other systems-oriented languages.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Experience with configuration management or fleet management at scale.
- Background in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).
- Familiarity with performance profiling and capacity planning.
- Experience with database administration, backup strategies, or disaster recovery.
- Exposure to secret management systems (Vault, SOPS) or PKI.
Skills: backend infrastructure, site reliability, Linux systems, automation, monitoring
This role has been open 39 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Atomic Semi | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 19 | 6136 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 44 d | 50 d (−6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: backend infrastructure, site reliability, Linux systems, automation, monitoring
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.