Security Intern Program 2023 - job 1 of 2

Grafana Labs

We do two things - secure Grafana Labs; the company behind the Grafana project, and we build out our security observability platform and product.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. Our back-end tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Google’s Cloud Platform. On the front-end we use React, HTML, javascript.

What will you be doing?

• 12 week internship embedded in our Security Engineering team
• Working on real life projects, for example
• Extensions for vulnerability management systems
• Tooling for security engineering education
• Visualizations for security observability
• Become an active part of a globally distributed group of interns
• Train on how to be successful in a global remote environment
• Regularly meet with a mentor to get all the support you need
• Take an active role in defining your own objectives
• Actively participate in technical discussion
• Dive deep into a part of our codebase
• Embrace our open-source culture and be brave to contribute to open source projects
• Gain a deeper understanding of our products and customers
• Present some of your learnings at the end of your internship

As we are remote-first, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and solid communication skills are a must.

What are we looking for in you?

• You are curious about security and software engineering
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are user focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism. You are excited to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Solid communication skills are a must

Requirements:

• Interest to work with security and software engineering
• Some experience with at least one programming language.
• Some experience with Git and Linux.

Nice to haves:

• Exposure to security tooling / scanners
• Experience with any Grafana products
• Some experience of security research / ctf / pentesting

What we offer?

• Work on a motivated, highly engaged remote team that’s supportive and open to constructive feedback
• Projects that give you the feeling of making an impact both on our community and your colleagues.
• Exciting mission and strategy to make an open platform for metrics, logs and tracing accessible to everyone.
• We want you to come away with a great security product development story and PRs merged into Grafana’s open source repos

Internship Program Information:

• Applications Open: September 28, 2022
• Application Review Starts: October 17, 2022
• Ability to work full-time for Summer 2023
• You are currently an enrolled student attending a college or university with an expected graduation date in 2024
• This will be a paid internship