Systems Engineer (Intern)

Role Overview

Bytebeam is looking for Systems Engineering Interns to work alongside our systems team to build high-performance message brokers, data pipelines, and analytics engines. You will take on scoped tasks in Rust to instrument and optimize pipelines for low CPU, low memory usage, and robustness. This is a full-time, on-site internship in Bangalore for 6-12 months, with the potential for a full-time offer.

Responsibilities

• Write and test small, scoped modules of the message broker, data pipeline, and analytics engine in Rust.
• Profile CPU and memory on constrained hardware and learn to measure before changing.
• Build benchmarks, fuzzers, fixtures, or tools that help the systems team move faster.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of Rust.
• Comfort on the Linux command line and with basic OS concepts (processes, memory, files).
• Available for a full-time, on-site internship.
• Hands-on hobby (non-academic) projects in Rust.
• Exposure to async I/O, networking, syscalls, or Linux internals.
• Basic scripting (Python, Shell) for tooling and test.

Skills

• Rust
• Linux
• Python
• Shell
• Async I/O