Linux Software Engineer Internship

Hybrid: From our office at Amsterdam Central Station and from home

Period: 6 months with a possibility to extend

Full-time position: 37.5 hours per week (working part-time is also possible)

IMPORTANT: This position is only being offered to students currently enrolled at a university in the Netherlands

We are looking for a Software Engineer intern to strengthen our RIPE Atlas team. As our intern, you will be supporting the team on the development of RIPE Atlas - a pretty unique task!

RIPE Atlas is a collaborative, active Internet measurement platform built and operated by the RIPE NCC. It relies on about 13,000 vantage points (which we call ‘probes’) that are hosted by volunteers spread all across the globe measuring the network and sharing their findings. These measurements include DNS queries, traceroutes, pings, NTP, HTTP and other data.

The firmware of these probes is written mainly in C and is available as open source. It runs mostly on OpenWrt or CentOS, but it is available as packages for RHEL, Debian and other OSes as well. The probes are operated by a backend which is written in Python. As of today, the majority of our probes run on small, dedicated hardware devices, while the rest run as software packages (software probes). The security and stability of the firmware code running on these devices is essential to the system.

What we expect from you:

• You are currently enrolled as student in a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Software Engineering, Software Development, Electronics or equivalent

• Some programming experience in C, Python and/or SQL

• You are comfortable with UNIX like OSs

• Good communication skills and fluency in English

• You have good work ethics and a ‘get things done’ attitude

• You will bring fun and fresh perspectives and collaborative approach to the team
  

What you can expect from us:

• A modern, flexible and informal work environment with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance

• Diverse and International colleagues

• Acquire insight knowledge about the functioning of the Internet

• An internship allowance of €750,- gross per month on a full time basis

• Hybrid working model, so you can arrange your weekly office and working from home days in a way that works for you

• The possibility to support the team in solving real problems that will have a positive impact on the global Internet

• Transportation cost reimbursement: you should live a maximum of 50km away from our office in Amsterdam. Reimbursement not applicable to students with a free OV-chip card.

• A dedicated mentor to support your development

• Healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays plus monthly office drinks.

The Software Engineering Department

We are a vibrant team of 45 talented, diverse and multicultural engineers who love our craft and are eager to learn from each other and evolve our skills through collaboration. You will mainly be working and interacting with a group of about 10 colleagues. We highly value the use of best practices, such as clean coding, code reviews, automated tests, continuous integration (CI) and few click deployments. As in a proper Agile environment, we work as a team and we rely on good communication.

About the RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and are proud of our legacy.

Our strongest asset is our staff. We bring together more than 180 people from over 40 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. At the moment, our staff can work both from the office and from home. Our official working language is English, but more than 30 languages are spoken by our colleagues.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

How to apply

If you are interested, please click on the Apply Button and fill in the application form.

Please note that due to the nature of our activities, we will require successful candidates to follow a pre-employment screening (conducted by our partner Validata).