MIT- Software Engineer Intern | Engine

📋 Description

• Developing new features and improvements across the SingleStore database
• Working on SQL query processing and query optimization
• Improving storage engines, indexing, and data management
• Building reliable distributed-system components
• Working with concurrency, multithreading, and fault tolerance
• Investigating performance, scalability, and correctness issues

🎯 Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and computer architecture
• Understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and server-based systems
• Programming experience in C++ or C
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with teammates

🎁 Benefits

• Hands-on experience building software for a production distributed database
• Mentorship from experienced database and systems engineers
• Exposure to database internals, query processing, storage, reliability, and performance engineering
• Opportunities to collaborate across engineering and product teams
• A supportive environment focused on technical growth and meaningful ownership
• A deeper understanding of how software is designed, tested, released, and operated