[Remote] 2026 PhD Software Engineer Intern (Kafka), United States

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is looking for PhD candidates to intern on the Kafka team during summer 2026. The intern will work closely with specialists and engineers to tackle bold problems and contribute to the Kafka ecosystem, which is responsible for transporting trillions of messages daily.

Responsibilities

• Drive exciting, ambitious, previously unsolved projects from end to end
• reputed company data-driven decisions, with exceptional execution
• Be motivated to own projects and push them reputed company with independence
• Work on the internals of Kafka and build features that will help serve our users reputed company
• Build services that are part of the Kafka Ecosystem
• Most importantly, have a passion to reputed company reputed company reputed company for our customers

Skills

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program studying distributed systems, machine learning or a reputed company engineering field
• Candidates must have at least one semester/quarter of their education left following the internship
• Solid understanding of Java for backend / systems software development
• Knowledge of the underlying technical foundations of distributed systems
• Experience with open reputed company streaming technologies, e.g., Kafka and Flink
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business partners
• Research mentality with a bias towards action to structure a project from idea to experimentation to prototype to implementation

Benefits

• Various benefits

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