Software Engineer Intern

Infraops

Posted on 9/4/2025

BitGo

BitGo

Compensation Overview

CA$60/hr

Kitchener, ON, Canada

In Person

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

Team: Infrastructure Ops
BitGo is seeking a talented DevOps/SRE Intern to join our Infrastructure team. This role is crucial for architecting and automating our highly available digital asset infrastructure on Kubernetes, guaranteeing robust performance and reliability. The team's main objective is to proactively monitor and enhance security, ensuring network integrity, minimizing operational overhead, and delivering a stable, cost-efficient platform that supports our developers and fosters user trust. This position blends web2 and web3 technologies, directly contributing to the security and scalability of over $100 billion in digital assets.

About our stack:
* Backend - Typescript, Go, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Solidity, PostgreSQL
* DevOps - Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, terraform

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and drive adoption of IaC tooling and automation solutions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and business teams to understand and address infrastructure requirements, ensuring scalable and reliable solutions.
  • Evaluate, integrate, and deploy cutting-edge open-source and commercial tools to enhance our security, infrastructure capabilities and meet evolving business needs.
  • Define and own the technical roadmaps for key system components, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Ensure the operational excellence, reliability, and performance of critical client and internal systems through proactive project work, incident response, and participation in on-call rotations.

Requirements:

  • Pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
  • Fluency in at least one modern backend programming language.
  • Comfortable working with (or learning about) infrastructure components on AWS including databases, load balancers, and container orchestration (kubernetes).
  • Solid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code.
  • Strong work ethic.
  • Interest in crypto and blockchain preferred.

If you will be working from Canada: the current target rate for 2026 interns in Canada is $60 CAD per hour. If the market indicates this needs to change, we would share this with you during your interview process.

*Please note that we are required by law to pay you in the currency of the country you will be working from.*