The Role
The Site Reliability Engineering Intern will assist in building and optimizing infrastructure, evolving CI/CD processes, and managing PostgreSQL databases while collaborating with the SRE team and R&D organization.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join Pigment: Transforming Business Planning and Performance with AI
Founded in 2019, Pigment stands out as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally, redefining business planning and performance with our AI-powered platform. We empower organizations across diverse industries, including Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, and Technology, to seamlessly integrate data, people, and processes, enabling them to plan and adapt rapidly.
With a vibrant team of over 500 professionals across North America and Europe, and offices in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, and the Bay Area, Pigment has successfully secured nearly $400 million in funding from leading global venture capitalists. Our recognition as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software underscores our commitment to excellence, as we proudly partner with industry leaders like Unilever, Vinci, Kayak, Siemens, and Coca-Cola.
At Pigment, we champion smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo—all as a united team. Every team member has the opportunity to make a significant impact and tackle ambitious challenges. Together, we pursue excellence with a collaborative spirit, continuously raising the bar to ensure strong performance and a proactive approach while fostering an environment of humility.
If you are passionate about innovation and wish to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry, we would love to hear from you!
Our Engineering team
Our Engineering team is responsible for developing our SaaS platform and building a comprehensive and user-friendly product. Pigment engineers participate in the entire application development lifecycle, focusing on design, coding, and keeping the production platform up and running. They can be specialized, but there is no strict separation between infrastructure, backend, and frontend.
We value user-centricity and pragmatism: we choose the most relevant tools for the problem we have to solve, understanding the strengths and constraints of each technology. Our engineering culture also values curiosity, humility, trust, ownership and team spirit.
👉 Curious to see what we’re building? Check out our Tech Blog!
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Intern to help our SRE team build the future of Pigment’s infrastructure.
Pigment provides a platform to process and analyze large sets of data (up to several hundred million rows and terabytes of data) for business planning needs, to hundreds of customers. These datasets can be pivoted, transformed, and aggregated on-demand thanks to Pigment’s formula engine, rendering them in real time in our frontend.
As an SRE intern at Pigment, you will explore and could contribute to some of the following challenges:
- CI/CD Evolution: Investigate and benchmark alternative CI platforms (e.g., Dagger, GitLab CI, BuildKite) to replace CircleCI, focusing on developer experience, speed, cost efficiency, and security.
- Expanding our self-hosted CI infrastructure to multiple Google Cloud Platform regions: In order make it possible for Pigment engineers to end-to-end tests their features, we’re running a large suite of end-to-end tests on every relevant change. For that, we create thousands of short-lived ( ~15m) virtual machines every day. In order to keep the costs low, we’re relying on spot instances. However, these are not always available in the single region in which we host our CI infrastructure. The goal of the internship would be to make that CI infrastructure span multiple GCP regions, and have each CI run pick the cheapest region.
- Infrastructure Cost Optimization: Experiment with approaches to reduce infrastructure costs, such as running stateless workloads on spot instances in Kubernetes and improving binpacking efficiency on our Kubernetes nodes.
- Vault for Secrets Management: Improve our Vault setup (e.g., disaster recovery) and design a seamless developer experience for managing all application secrets securely.
- Operating Postgres at Scale: Support the migration of Postgres databases from Cloud SQL to CNPG, with a focus on:
-> Reliability and scalability
-> Zero-downtime upgrades
-> Running Postgres in Kubernetes with operators
-> Implementing Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
You’ll be working closely with multiple members of the SRE team and the broader R&D organization, gaining hands-on experience with the real challenges of scaling infrastructure for a fast-growing SaaS product.
Pigment’s Technical Stack
During your internship, you’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the technologies that make up our stack:
Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Terraform, ArgoCD
Languages & Tooling: Golang, C# on .Net Core Linux, Python (for AI use cases), React/TypeScript
Data: PostgreSQL, Singlestore, ElasticSearch
Observability: Datadog (logs, traces, metrics, security, performance monitoring)
Other tools: GitHub, Docker, Temporal, RabbitMQ, CircleCI, Vault
We conduct background checks as part of our hiring process, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in the countries where we operate. This may include verification of employment history, education, and, where legally permitted, criminal records. Any checks will be conducted lawfully, with candidate consent, and information will be treated confidentially.
Pigment is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diversity is a strength and fosters innovation. We are committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, social origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We may process your personal data in accordance with our HR Data Protection Notice.
Top Skills
.Net Core
Argocd
C#
CircleCI
Datadog
Docker
Elasticsearch
Git
Go
Istio
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
RabbitMQ
React
Singlestore
Temporal
Terraform
Typescript
Vault
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The Company
What We Do
In a world moving at an incredibly fast pace, businesses have grown accustomed to change. Transforming their business model, pivoting their strategy, rethinking their go-to-market, the list goes on.
To enable these changes, they have also had to rethink the way they work.
Breaking down silos isn’t a best practice anymore. It’s a given.
And yet, when it comes to planning, little has changed. In fact, planning tools work the exact opposite way, reinforcing data and people silos, and preventing teams from working together toward their common goals.
As a result, planning is usually seen as a dreadful process.
But the truth is, planning drives strategy. It’s high time we serve it with the right tools.
Pigment is the business planning platform for fast-growing companies. Our mission is to help companies make better, faster decisions in a changing world, and drive revenue growth.
At Pigment we believe that:
✅ Real-time data informs better outcomes. Trim your sail, and make the best use of current winds.
✅ Reporting should be accurate, quick, and insightful.
✅ Planning should be simple, smooth, and delightful.
✅ Less time should be spent on data crunching, more time on bringing insights to the business.
✅ Collaboration should be at the heart of any planning process, so your organization works as one.
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