Site Reliability Engineer Intern - Summer 2026

About the role

As a Site Reliability Engineer Intern, you'll join Tempo's SRE team and get hands-on experience building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our engineering department. You'll contribute to real work - helping create stable, highly available, cost-efficient, and extensible solutions that power products used by thousands of customers worldwide. You'll be embedded within our Toronto-based engineering team, working alongside experienced SREs in a real sprint cycle with dedicated mentorship and structured support throughout your term.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure using best practices
• Support CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance
• Help deploy and manage workloads on AWS
• Work with modern technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Contribute to automating key processes including build, release, monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Help monitor system performance and assist in troubleshooting issues
• Participate in team rituals including standups, sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with engineers across the team to understand and contribute to technical solutions
• Support security and compliance requirements as part of day-to-day work
• Present your work at the end of your term to engineers and stakeholders across the team

Requirements

• We're looking for students who are curious about how large-scale systems work and excited to get their hands on real infrastructure. You don't need years of experience - you need strong fundamentals, a collaborative mindset, and the drive to figure things out when the path isn't obvious.
• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field at a Canadian post-secondary institution
• 18 years of age or older
• Available for the full term, working 40 hours per week
• Legally authorized to work in Canada for the duration of the internship
• Based in the Greater Toronto Area or able to work within Toronto team hours (Eastern Time)
• Familiarity with Linux, Bash, and Git
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts (AWS or equivalent)
• Exposure to containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes is an asset
• Strong written communication skills and comfort with remote, async collaboration
• Analytical mindset with a passion for solving tough problems
• Eager to learn, receive feedback, and grow
• Why Join Tempo?
• Impact : Work on meaningful products that empower enterprise users and improve productivity.
• Innovation : Be part of a culture that values creativity and innovation, with opportunities to make a real impact.
• Collaboration : Join a supportive, collaborative team that values openness, communication, and a continuous learning environment.
• Growth : Opportunities for professional development, including conferences, courses, and mentorship.
• What's In It For You (Org-wide)
• Competitive compensation - fair pay for meaningful engineering work
• Dedicated engineering mentor - a senior Tempo engineer committed to your development throughout the term
• Structured remote onboarding - a first week designed to get you productive and connected, without the chaos
• Full access to Tempo's internal tools from day one
• Mid-term and end-of-term feedback sessions - structured, honest reviews to help you grow
• Cohort experience - you'll be part of Tempo's inaugural intern class, with shared programming and peer connection built in
• Possibility of a return offer for exceptional interns, based on team needs
• And so much more!
• How to Apply
• Submit your resume and a short cover letter through our careers page. In your cover letter, tell us about a technical project you're proud of - it doesn't have to be professional experience. School projects, personal builds, and open-source contributions all count.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.
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Additional Information

Site Reliability Engineer Intern Location: Remote (Toronto, Ontario) Team: Engineering Hours: Full-time Term: Summer 2026 With over 30,000 customers, including a third of Fortune 500 companies, Tempo is trusted by organizations across the globe to make their workflows work better. We create a suite of integrated solutions for time management, resource planning, budget management, roadmapping, program management, reporting and more. We create the tech that enables the modern team to deliver - for every step from first vision to value. Since our beginning in 2007 as a project to make a time-tracking tool to help a client - Tempo has expanded to become the #1 time management add-on for Jira, and we have developed and acquired a multitude of tools to become one of the most trusted names in the Atlassian ecosystem. We want everyone to work better - but we also want to be a tech company with a heart. Join us as we continuously innovate our award-winning products, create new solutions, and help the world work smarter, not harder.

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