Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Help build reliable CloudKit-backed infrastructure for secure, privacy-minded product experiences across Apple platforms. This is a part-time engineering internship focused on the cloud services foundation behind clickclick. You will contribute to CloudKit-backed features that help the product stay responsive, reliable, and consistent across devices while preserving user privacy.

Responsibilities

• Build and test CloudKit-backed data flows for product features that need secure state, delivery, and recovery behavior.
• Improve model design, indexing assumptions, synchronization paths, and background update handling.
• Help make cloud-backed features resilient to network changes, account state, stale data, retries, and partial failures.
• Add diagnostics, fixtures, and automated tests that make infrastructure behavior easier to validate and debug.
• Collaborate with application engineers to integrate cloud infrastructure into user-facing workflows without exposing implementation complexity.
• Document operational assumptions, failure modes, and debugging practices for the engineering team.

Requirements

• Current student pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, distributed systems, data systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• At the end of the internship, must return to school to continue education or use the internship as the final graduation requirement.
• Experience writing Swift and building Apple-platform projects.
• Basic understanding of CloudKit, client-server APIs, distributed systems, persistence, or event-driven data models.
• Careful debugging habits, clear written communication, and the ability to reason about ordering, idempotency, and failure recovery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building CloudKit-backed projects with async/await, actors, Codable, and XCTest.
• Hands-on experience with CloudKit records, queries, subscriptions, zones, assets, or CloudKit Dashboard.
• Experience with protocol-oriented design, test doubles, automated validation, or service diagnostics.
• Interest in privacy-aware cloud services, Apple platform infrastructure, AI-assisted workflows, or productivity software.
• Ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure behavior into focused tests, documentation, and operational guidance.

Pay

This internship is paid at an expected rate of $28 to $36 per hour, depending on experience.

Benefits

• Paid sick time.
• Flexible scheduling around school commitments.
• Mentorship from senior engineers.
• Access to the hardware, developer accounts, and CloudKit environments needed for the role.