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Software Engineer Intern - Platform Engineering

Columbia Sportswear
401(k), relocation assistance
United States, Washington
Jan 18, 2025
SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM SUMMARY At Columbia Sportswear we offer college students a unique opportunity to join our team and help solve real business problems! Bring your passion and insight to a company that is committed to driving long- term sustainable growth this summer for our 10-week summer internship at our Headquarters in Portland, Oregon! Interns can expect to gain valuable hands-on experience within their department while building partnerships with teams and fellow interns along the way! Location: Portland, OR Duration: ~10 weeks Start Date Options: May 19th- July 25th or June 23rd - August 29th Application Deadline: January 26th, 2025 Pay: $22.50/hr ABOUT THE POSITION The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE Responsible for development, testing, deployment and support of a platform or application. Maintain thoughtful application design. Build subject matter expertise in the business area. Follow quality standards. Leverage automation where possible. Practice in peer code reviews. Troubleshoot and fix bugs, security risks, bottlenecks, etc. Leverage support playbooks. Monitor and observe health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Assist with diagnosing performance issues found in monitoring. Assist with implementing new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers/stakeholders. Learn about DevOps practices employed by the squad to advance the technical foundation of solutions. Seek to understand the squad's current technologies and ways of software delivery. Partner with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Help inform delivery estimates (story points). Seek to understand prioritization and sequencing decisions. Seek to understand key dependencies. Participate in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Help drive collaboration within the team through participation in practices such as pair programming. YOU ARE You are a strong communicator and collaborator. You are a continuous learner who keeps up with the latest technologies and best practices in software engineering. Excited to shape new capability and collaborate with other engineers. Determined to learn as much as you can during your internship YOU HAVE Majoring in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field or a combination of education and experience. A minimum cumulative GPA of a 2.7 from an accredited college or university. Experience with .NET and C# or ability to learn the stack quickly Desire to learn about platform engineering and building API's You have some familiarity with Cloud development patterns in Azure. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Current student with one of the following academic standings: Rising Senior, Senior, Graduate/ MBA student Degree relevant to the internship you are applying for Must be able to participate in 10-week program for either date option provided above Must be able to work onsite at our headquarter location for the duration of the internship- interns will partner directly with their managers regarding expectations to work collaboratively in office specified days of the week NON-LOCAL CANDIDATE CONSIDERATIONS Relocation assistance & housing is NOT provided- these costs and arrangements would be the responsibility of the intern for the entirety of the program This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter. At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to interns benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Employees must be age 18 and have worked the required amount of hours to qualify. We also offer generous employee discounts. If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.