Client Platform Engineer Intern - Summer 2026
Role Overview
This is an internship role for a Client Platform Engineer, focusing on building automation and data-driven workflows to manage Snowflake's global fleet of end-user compute devices like laptops, mobile devices, and VDI. The intern will work closely with a global team on tasks such as system administration, writing technical documentation, and using GitOps for code as infrastructure, contributing to long-term projects that enhance user experience at scale.
Perks & Benefits
The internship is fully remote, offering paid, full-time work with exposure to a fast-paced, inclusive culture and world-class experts. It includes high access to supervisors for mentorship, detailed feedback, and post-internship career opportunities, such as full-time roles or additional internships, fostering professional growth in a collaborative, data-focused environment.
Full Job Description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
We’re looking for dedicated students who share our passion for ground-breaking technology and want to create a lasting future for you and Snowflake.
Come build data driven and data enabled workflows to help Snowflake manage its fleet of end user compute devices. We are looking for someone who wants to build automation, wants to use data to find solutions, and help us manage our fleet of laptops, mobile devices, VDI, App Streaming services, and other technologies related to end user device management. Snowflake is a global company with employees spread across our planet, we are looking for someone who wants to bring a great user experience to our users at scale across the planet.
WHAT WE OFFER :
Paid, full-time internships in the heart of the software industry
Post-internship career opportunities (full-time and/or additional internships)
Exposure to a fast-paced, fun and inclusive culture
A chance to work with world-class experts on challenging projects
Opportunity to provide meaningful contributions to a real system used by customers
High level of access to supervisors (manager and mentor), detailed direction without micromanagement, feedback throughout your internship, and a final evaluation
WHAT WE EXPECT :
Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college/university program during the time of the internship
Currently pursuing any relevant degree to this job.
Basic understanding of Operating Systems
Fundamental knowledge of Computer Science and Systems
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Desire to learn new technologies.
Work closely with team members to help accomplish day to day tasks and contribute to long term projects.
High level of customer service with a “can do” attitude
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN / GAIN :
Work with a high degree of integrity and accountability.
Results oriented, leveraging data and feedback.
Willingness to learn and take on new challenges.
Calm and focused during technical issues.
Proactively seeks opportunities to improve processes and documentation.
Strong collaboration skills and works well with others.
Desire to learn and grow your skills around device management and related technologies.
POSSIBLE TEAMS / WORK FOCUS AREAS :
Work with a global team and be collaborative.
Build automation to accomplish goals while reducing labor.
Work with data to enable you to be data driven and data enabled.
Write technical documentation and knowledge base articles.
Work on our code as infrastructure flows with GitOps.
Basic System Administration of macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and MDM tools
Work with support teams as an engineering escalation point.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
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