Site Reliability Engineering Intern

About Poshmark

Poshmark is a leading fashion resale marketplace powered by a vibrant, highly engaged community of buyers and sellers and real-time social experiences. Designed to make online selling fun, more social and easier than ever, Poshmark empowers its sellers to turn their closet into a thriving business and share their style with the world. Since its founding in 2011, Poshmark has grown its community to over 130 million users and generated over $10 billion in GMV, helping sellers realize billions in earnings, delighting buyers with deals and one-of-a-kind items, and building a more sustainable future for fashion. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news, visit newsroom.poshmark.com.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer Intern to join our CloudOps/SRE team and support the reliability, availability, and scalability of Poshmark’s production systems. This internship is designed for candidates who are passionate about systems, automation, and cloud infrastructure and are eager to learn how large-scale web platforms are operated.

As an intern, you will work closely with experienced Site Reliability Engineers and Development teams to gain hands-on exposure to real-world production systems, monitoring, automation, and incident management processes.

6-Month Internship Accomplishments

• Gain a strong understanding of Poshmark’s technology stack, infrastructure, and core product functionality.

• Learn the fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering, including monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident response.

• Get hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools used within the CloudOps organization.

• Assist in building or enhancing automation scripts, dashboards, or internal tools.

• Contribute to small-scale projects under guidance from senior engineers.

• Observe and learn the on-call process and incident management workflows (no primary on-call ownership).

Responsibilities

• Assist in monitoring the health, performance, and availability of Poshmark’s services.

• Support senior engineers in deploying, maintaining, and improving infrastructure and services.

• Help create or update dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for production systems.

• Participate in troubleshooting basic production issues and post-incident reviews.

• Work closely with development teams to understand application behavior and operational needs.

• Follow best practices for reliability, security, and automation.

• Document learnings, processes, and tools clearly for team use.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Basic understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems.

• Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash, or similar).

• Basic knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure fundamentals).

• Interest in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

• Willingness to learn new tools, technologies, and operational practices.

• Good problem-solving skills and a proactive learning mindset.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Technologies You’ll Be Exposed To

• Languages & Frameworks: Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js

• Web & Middleware: Nginx, Tomcat, HAProxy

• Datastores & Messaging: MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch

• Cloud: Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, etc.)

• DevOps & SRE Tools: Terraform, Jenkins, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible