[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer Intern @Dayforce

Role Description

As an Intern at Dayforce, you’ll gain real-world experience with meaningful responsibilities, access to development programs, and the chance to collaborate globally, bringing new ideas and optimizing processes across multiple business units.

We are looking for a motivated Software Developer / Site Reliability Engineer Intern to join our engineering team and work on software reliability, automation, observability, and operational improvements. The role will provide hands-on experience with enterprise-scale systems while exploring modern technologies and AI-powered development tools.

What you’ll get to do:

• Improve system reliability, observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting across engineering services.
• Analyze application and system issues, troubleshoot failures, and help identify root causes.
• Develop automation and tools to reduce manual operational effort and improve engineering efficiency.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational workflows.
• Help identify reliability risks and implement improvements to system resilience and performance.
• Build dashboards, metrics, and health checks to improve visibility into system and application health.
• Support production issue investigation and participate in root-cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
• Explore and apply AI-powered development tools and AI agents to improve engineering and operational productivity.
• Work closely with developers, Cloud Operations, and other engineering teams to improve reliability and adoption of engineering solutions.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with at least one programming language such as C#, Java, Python.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Interest in SRE, cloud technologies, automation, observability, and distributed systems.
• Willingness to learn, investigate problems, and work collaboratively.

Requirements

• Experience with Git, SQL, REST APIs, automated testing, or CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools or AI development platforms.
• Experience building AI agents, AI-powered applications, or automation using LLMs/APIs.
• Personal, academic, or previous internship software development experience.
• Exposure to cloud technologies and modern developer tools.

Benefits

• Experience working for one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies in the world.
• Access to Dayforce’s development programs and resources.
• Ability to work with as well as create relationships with members across the globe.
• Autonomy to bring forth new ideas and optimize existing structures within the organization.
• Meaningful responsibilities, enabling you to obtain ‘real-world’ experience.
• Dynamic hands-on exposure to multiple business-units and stakeholders across Dayforce.
• Hands-on experience working on a real enterprise software product.
• Mentorship from experienced engineers.
• Exposure to production systems and software development lifecycle.
• Opportunities to develop your coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience applying AI tools and emerging technologies to software development.