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Intern - Software Engineer

Zayo Group
Zayo Group Salary
Ashburn, VA Intern
POSTED ON 2/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2025

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

External Field

About the Program : The 10-week Zayo Summer Internship Program is designed to cultivate the next generation of telecommunications professionals. Interns will gain meaningful, hands-on experience within a dynamic, fast-paced, and innovative environment. Our goal is to empower, develop, and connect our interns while fostering fresh perspectives and ideas that will drive our organization forward.

Program Details :

  • Start Date : June 2025
  • Duration : 10 weeks
  • Location : Denver-based preferred, based on hiring team's needs.

Software Engineering Intern

We are looking for a passionate and driven Software Engineering Intern to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to learn, grow, and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment. As a Software Engineering Intern, you will have the opportunity to contribute to real-world projects, collaborate with experienced engineers, and hone your technical skills in an impactful way.

Responsibilities :

As a Software Engineering Intern at Zayo, you will :

  • Collaborate with senior engineers to design, implement, and test software solutions that support Zayo's mission-critical infrastructure.
  • Contribute to ongoing projects involving large-scale data sets and infrastructure automation.
  • Take ownership of assigned tasks, move quickly to gather feedback, and improve the work you deliver.
  • Refactor and optimize code to improve performance and scalability across various systems.
  • Contribute to open-source projects and demonstrate the impact of your contributions.
  • Participate in debugging and troubleshooting technical challenges across distributed systems.
  • Help maintain clear documentation of your work and share insights with your team.
  • Gain exposure to networking and infrastructure automation technologies, including internet infrastructure solutions like dark fiber, Ethernet, and more.
  • Analyze large datasets and tackle challenges associated with data processing.
  • Requirements :

  • Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Solid Python programming experience, with a strong desire to continue improving in Python.
  • Action-oriented and a self-starter who can independently complete tasks and integrate feedback.
  • Strong interest in code refactoring and optimization challenges.
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects, with a portfolio demonstrating your contributions.
  • Ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly, even in ambiguous situations.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think abstractly.
  • Interest in networking, internet infrastructure, and network automation.
  • Eagerness to work with large data sets and solve data-related challenges.
  • Preferred Experience :

  • Familiarity with distributed, multi-tiered systems, relational databases, and algorithms.
  • Knowledge of GraphQL, MongoDB, or other modern web technologies.
  • Experience from a previous technical internship or related project work.
  • Proficiency with React.js or other front-end development technologies.
  • Estimated Base Pay Range : $23.00-$25.00 USD / hour

    Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

    This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

    Salary : $23 - $25

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