Software Engineering Intern

Summary

Join Twilio as a Software Engineering Intern for an 8-week summer internship starting in June. This role involves designing, developing, deploying, and operating software solutions for real-time, low-latency communications. Interns will work on core features and services, learn from experienced engineers, and contribute to a high-availability cloud environment. The internship offers opportunities to develop technical skills, work on complex distributed systems, and contribute to a vibrant, remote-first team. The role is remote and based in Ireland, with the option to use the Dublin office. Twilio offers competitive pay, generous time off, and flexible working.

Requirements

• To be working towards a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field
• To have a keen interest in software development with several side projects and perhaps are a part of the open source community
• To have a hungry entrepreneurial and "can do" spirit, as evidenced by successful interest in learning new technologies
• To have explored writing code in any of the following languages: Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/C or C++

Responsibilities

• Be a Software Engineer, not just an "intern"
• Ship many different projects during your summer
• Learn from passionate engineers at Twilio who solve problems in distributed computing, real-time DSP (audio processing), virtualization performance, distributed messaging, busses and more
• You will be given responsibility for core features and services that ship to our users
• You will be expected to embrace these challenges, learn fast and deliver great results
• Learn to develop beautiful and profitable applications
• Demonstrate consistent improvement in your coding skills, issue-tracking and source control systems, and agile development mentality
• Participate in code reviews, bug tracking and project management with the rest of the Twilio Team

Preferred Qualifications

• Having knowledge of unit and integration testing methodologies, and the ability to write, debug and deploy testing frameworks
• Experience in data processing, analytics, business intelligence, and reporting
• Experience with technologies such as Hadoop, spark, python, scala etc

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time off
• Flexible working