Policy Engineering Intern- Summer 2027
Veeam Software · San Jose, United States · 16d ago
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About Our Summer Internship Program
Our Summer Internship Program is designed for students entering their final year of university who are eager to gain meaningful, real-world experience in a fast paced, collaborative, and professional environment.
As a Summer Intern, you'll participate in a comprehensive onboarding experience led by our University Relations team to set you up for success from day one. Throughout the program, you'll also have the opportunity to participate in weekly professional development sessions, networking events, social activities, and other engaging experienced designed to support your personal and professional growth.
The program takes place from June – August 2027 (10-week program).
Your Role
Join the Policy Engineering team and contribute to building an enterprise-grade cloud data governance platform used by Fortune 500 clients to manage and protect sensitive data across complex, multi-cloud environments.
- Develop internal tooling, testing harnesses, and AI-assisted developer utilities that improve team productivity and engineering quality — owning small-to-medium scoped projects with real impact on day-to-day engineering workflows.
- Write backend code in Go within a large, production-grade codebase — learning established patterns and conventions under the guidance of senior engineers and tech leads.
- Build and maintain automated test suites and evaluation frameworks to validate system behavior, helping the team catch regressions and ensure correctness as the product evolves.
- Explore and prototype AI/LLM-powered tooling to assist with development workflows — such as automated test generation, code analysis utilities, or documentation assistants.
- Collaborate closely with senior engineers — attending design discussions, sprint planning, and code reviews as a participant, gaining exposure to how large-scale distributed systems are architected and delivered.
- Ramp up on modern backend and cloud engineering practices including distributed systems concepts, event-driven architecture, multi-tenant SaaS design, and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll gain: Hands-on experience shipping real software in a production engineering environment, mentorship from senior engineers, and deep exposure to enterprise cloud and data platform engineering.
Requirements:
- This role requires you to be in office 5 days a week at the San Jose, California location
Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Must be able to exhibit prior use of AI tooling
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; high-energy, motivated self-starter.
- Detail-oriented with a proactive, problem-solving mindset
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple moving pieces
Benefits
As a paid intern at Veeam, you’ll receive:
- Paid Company Holidays during your internship
- Tech Stipend to help set up your workspace
- 8 Hours of Paid Volunteer Time through our Veeam Cares Program
- Personal and Professional Development through our Internship Program
We’re committed to providing a supportive and rewarding internship experience.
The pay range posted is an hourly rate of base pay. When making an offer of employment, Veeam will take into consideration the candidate’s expectations, experience, education, scope of responsibility for the role, and the current market demands.
United States of America Intern Pay Range
$40 - $50 USD
Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.
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