Staff Backend Engineer Internship

Advanced backend systems internship covering distributed systems, architecture reviews, event-driven systems, database internals, and reliability engineering.

GoKafkaPostgresRedisgRPCOpenTelemetryDockerKubernetes

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Outcomes

Design distributed systems
Build event-driven architectures
Handle high throughput systems
Implement reliability patterns
Perform architecture reviews

Internship roadmap

1
Distributed Systems
2
Database Internals
3
Event-Driven Systems
4
Caching + Queues
5
Reliability Engineering
6
Staff-Level Architecture

Curriculum timeline

Week 1 — Distributed Systems
Consensus, partitions, retries, and consistency.
2 tasks
Week 2 — Database Internals
Indexes, WAL, MVCC, and query planning.
0 tasks

Task previews

Day 1

CAP theorem deep dive

reading

Day 2

Build event pipeline

coding

Starter resources

FAQ

Is Go mandatory?

Examples use Go but concepts apply broadly.

Is this beginner friendly?

No. Prior backend experience is expected.

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