Student Intern
Who You Are:
You are a dynamic, energetic, and promising student who is looking for an on-site internship program and is eager to learn about the software engineering and security areas. As a Software Engineer intern on the team, your main responsibility is to work as a developer engineer in a scrum team to find a solution for different issues and challenges for our cloud-based authentication application. This internship is on-site/presential, providing the opportunity to collaborate closely with your team and learn in a hands-on environment.
You are inquisitive, you love learning, you know how to get to the right answers even if you do not know them to start with. You listen carefully and voice your challenges and progress to your leaders. You have the knack for innovation; you are driven by the desire to help our customers and partners succeed. You also embody the other human values that we care about most (accountability, belonging, bias for action) and you know that people matter most.
You must have a degree in progress in Software Engineering, System Analysis, or a related field. It is essential a minimum of 20 hours, desirable 30 hours available per week. This is an on-site internship position.
What to expect as an “Intern Software Engineer” in WatchGuard:
As an on-site Intern Software Engineer, you will be working closely with our engineering team and will gain exciting real-world software engineering experience at a thriving company. Being physically present with the team will allow you to collaborate directly with engineers and mentors while helping us achieve the following main objectives:
• Develop yourself by learning robust processes using agile methodologies and working with globally distributed teams with asynchronous communication across diverse cultures and time zones.
• Ensure that you understand the vision, are held accountable, meet commitments, consider choices for high-performance and resilient software, and have strong software engineering discipline (test-driven design, unit test code coverage, automation, staying on top of OSS compliance and vulnerabilities, monitoring focused, secure coding practices, etc.).
• Be mentored by our engineers, with a great opportunity to meet highly qualified engineers from multiple cultures, who will be there for you.
• Uphold our standards and maturity levels of running world class security services in cloud by designing more secure, reliable, and scalable cloud managed security services (architecture and infrastructure wise).
• Maintain an open environment of collaboration, transparency, innovation, and fun for positive teamwork, supported by the benefits of working together on-site with the team.
A Typical Day in the Life:
The on-site Intern Software Engineer is seen at WatchGuard as the future. There is a lot to learn, and WatchGuard offers opportunity, support, and mentoring. Being present in the office environment allows you to interact directly with engineers and accelerate your learning. To evolve in your career and to execute your duties, you need to use these important characteristics on a day-to-day basis:
• Showing initiative and commitment: You are now part of an experienced and strong group of engineers, but there is still a lot to learn and while you are learning it is important that you do not wait for anything to get your hands on. You need to have initiative to pursue the activities and commitment in finish them before the next challenge.
• Applying analytical and logical mind: You will write solutions to solve real problems for our customers. So, you need to understand our customers and what is important for them. You should not just follow instructions, you must comprehend what you are doing, ask questions, bring suggestions, and find the best solution to deliver what is required.
• Demonstrating curiosity and genuine interest in learning: You will be in contact with more senior engineers and architects as well as working in a complex environment and product. So, you will have the opportunity to gain experience all the time and it is imperative that you have an interest in evolving with the daily experience and becoming a stronger engineer tomorrow.
• Maintaining teamwork and collaboration: You will be collaborating with a team to deliver something important to our customers and build a safer world. So, you are not alone, and it is important for you to think collectively, helping others around you and demonstrating gratitude to your colleagues for helping you. For that you must have strong empathy and be able to communicate clearly and efficiently, especially through in-person collaboration in the on-site environment.