Summer 2025 - Open Source Developer Intern

Job Description

Nice to meet you!

We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

What you’ll do 

Looking for *that* internship? The game-changing one that’ll help you learn, grow, and chart your path forward? You’ll find it at SAS. Our interns aren’t coffee runners – they do real, meaningful work. Our award-winning internship program is focused on development, culture, and community. We’ll help you grow professionally, find (or further) your passion, and make memorable connections that last beyond the summer.  

As an Open Source developer intern, you will support platforms and cloud architecture that enable analytic solutions.  You will also be curious with a drive for continuous learning.  You will have a passion for developing solutions for customers’ varied business problems.  At SAS, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with many experts in a variety of analytical specialties.  Your understanding of cloud technologies and programming languages and various open source technologies to enhance capabilities will be valued, as SAS seeks to advance our approach to market. 

You will be a team member that will support product development and integration activities regarding SAS solution products from product definition and planning through production and release.

You will support the sales team with solution sales activities to maximize revenue opportunities and ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction, including:

• Outlining, developing and deploying Open Source and SAS technologies for on-premise, cloud-only and cloud-hybrid solutions for sophisticated computing work flows leveraging APIs and other application communication protocols for US sales and customer requests.
• Be a resource on a team involved with hands-on architecture and development for building data analytics platforms involving SAS technologies integrated with Open Source technologies that leverage IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS, the API economy and a variety of other specialized front end user interfaces.
• Utilize your experience developing in one or more programming languages including, but not limited to: SAS, SAS VA, Go, Java/JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, etc.

As an Intern you will be a part of a team that will:

• Be comfortable developing software with mid-tier (micro service), database, and container technologies.
• Design and develop high quality, testable and scalable software solutions within established timelines.
• Adhere to R&D best practices and processes.
• Actively involve other project stakeholders (e.g., managers, developers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies functional requirements and is consistent with established R&D standards.
• Participate in project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alerts stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of task
• Ensure the quality of the code you write through the development of automated tests (unit, performance).
• Conduct code reviews to ensure integrity and cross-product consistency.
• Work closely with testing by providing thorough reviews of the test plan and communicate when updates to the plan should be made to cover code changes related to enhancements, redesigns and/or bug fixes.
• In collaboration with technical writers, authors appropriate level of design and technical documentation that satisfies both internal and external consumers.
• Work with multiple operating systems and anticipate technical anomalies and enhancements for various environments

Location  

This internship will be a hybrid position based in Cary, NC.

Internship dates:

May 20 – August 8, 2025. We can be flexible on start date if your university is on a quarter system.  Internships last 12 weeks in total length.  

Perks of the job 

• Work with (and learn from) the best. As a SAS intern, you’ll get face time with our top executives! 
• Free SAS programming training and certification.   
• At SAS, flexible work is the norm. Want to work remotely? That’s cool. Prefer a hybrid mix of sweatpants and in-person collaboration? That’s great, too.  
• We work hard, but we like to play hard, too. Enjoy hackathons, social events and other opportunities to connect engage.  
• Your well-being matters, and that’s why we support all dimensions of your well-being by offering programs that reduce stress and distractions to help you stay healthy and productive.  This includes an on-site and remote Work/Life Center staffed by master’s level social workers and an Employee Assistance Program.

Diverse and inclusive    

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.    

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact Recruitingsupport@sas.com.

Pay Transparency: The hourly rate for SAS internships is determined by the applicant’s year in school and the position they are hired into. Hourly rates range from $15 – $31 for associate’s/bachelor’s level positions and $29 - $49/hour for master’s/Ph.D positions. Internship roles are not eligible for bonus.

Salary : $15 - $31