Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!
Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.
Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!
With over 1000+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Intern
We are seeking a talented and motivated SRE Intern to join our growing team, focusing on Productivity Engineering and the Developer Experience for our development platform. In this role, you will contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of our enterprise-level systems. The ideal candidate has a solid foundation in software engineering with a passion for infrastructure-as-code and building robust, automated solutions.
Responsibilities
- Developer Platform Contribution: Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of Flywire's internal PaaS ecosystem, known as Victoria, which supports the full software development lifecycle (create, build, test, deploy, run, and monitor).
- Developer experience: Cater to the needs of over 200 engineers and make their job easier and more efficient. We solve problems by writing well maintained and elegant software solutions. Scripting is for PoCs, our production systems are robust software engineering projects.
- Automation & Tooling: Participate in the design and development of tooling for task automation. Work on a variety of web tools, UIs, CLIs, bots and stateless services to keep our eco system running smoothly.
- Continuous Improvement (CI/CD): Assist in advancing our full DevSecOps capabilities and contributing to various phases of the development lifecycle, focusing heavily on deployment and operations.
- Operational Support: Assist senior engineers in ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of our cloud-native applications and helping to understand system requirements and troubleshoot production issues and software reliability issues
- Platform Abstraction: Contribute to reducing tooling complexity through implementing simple and elegant abstractions.
- Best Practices Championing: Support development teams (200+ engineers) in adopting platform best practices and internal tools.
What You Will Learn
- Software Engineering for the Cloud: How to build and run software in close contact with your clients (the other engineers). Learn to design, implement and roll out features for existing systems or create new ones to be used in production environments.
- AI Software Engineering Processes & Infrastructure: How to use agentic flows for building software and rely on, operate and improve our AI infrastructure.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): How to manage cloud resources programmatically using tools like Terraform
- Observability & Monitoring: How to implement logging, metrics, and tracing to gain deep insights into system health.
- Container Orchestration: Real-world experience with Docker and AWS to manage distributed services.
- Incident Management: How to respond to system failures, conduct post-mortems, and prevent recurrence in a production environment.
- Security at Scale: Implementing automated security checks and best practices within the CI/CD pipeline.
Skills & Experience
- Logical Thinking Capability to understand and manipulate complex systems. Strong understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and complexity analysis is helpful.
- Basic Programming: Basic knowledge of any programming language. We use a polyglot stack. Java or Python are useful.
- Linux & servers basics: Understanding what a server is and experience working inside the shell.
- Networking Fundamentals: Good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, and HTTP protocols.
- Distributed Systems: Understanding of modern application architectures and distributed service concepts.
- Cloud Exposure: Basic exposure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar platforms.
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Working knowledge of Source Control (e.g., Git).
- Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture.
- An interest in software/product quality and systematic testing.
Submit today and get started!
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.
Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.
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