Software Engineering Data Cloud Query / Hyper - PhD Intern

Description

Software Engineering Intern Data Cloud Query / Hyper

Start date: 5th October 2026

Location: Munich

Duration: 3 months

We are thrilled to invite ambitious student candidates who would like to build a career in Salesforce to apply for our Internship Program.

This exciting program is designed to built the foundational skills for a Software Engineering role to begin a Salesforce careers.

Our Internship program is a fully immersive experience, combining comprehensive learning paths with in-role experience. You will be assigned experienced Software Engineer manager who will provide hands-on coaching.

By joining Salesforce, you will have the opportunity to lay the foundation for a fast-paced, successful career. We are a proud member of the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work list for the past 14 years and a consistent winner of Great Place to Work awards.

As a Software Engineering Intern on the Data Cloud Query team, you will contribute to Salesforce's next-gen database technology Hyper, which powers Salesforce Data 36O. Hyper is designed and built for high-performance analytical workloads in a diverse range of settings from scalable cloud environments to workstations and laptops running all major operating systems.

Together with a your team you will design and build impactful trustable solutions that are used in a variety of use cases, helping our customers perform interactive analytics of the freshest state of data across Salesforce products.

What you’ll be doing

• Build new features that advance Hyper’s capabilities.
• Improve Hyper’s performance through new algorithms, concurrency and scaling.
• Extend and improve Hyper’s data format, query execution and query optimizer to help our customers analyze their data faster
• Improve Hyper’s resource governance across a wide range of devices.
• Extend our SQL dialect to bring new capabilities to Hyper.
• Enable Hyper’s extensibility through expressive and easy-to-use APIs.
• Communicate technical ideas at all levels of the organization.
• Support peers in building scalable distributed systems.
  
  

Who you are

• PhD Student
• You know modern C++ and enjoy collaborating, learning from and teaching others. It is a plus if you are familiar with Database engineering, cloud-native technology and Kubernetes.
• You're Self-Motivated. You take initiative and can turn ideas into real features. You enjoy discussing scenarios, designs and their tradeoffs with your team.
• You have a Growth Mindset. You are not satisfied by the status quo and work with those around you to improve the quality of our systems, code, teamwork and engineering practices.
• You are Customer Focused. You regularly think from the customer perspective. You want to learn about customers, their challenges & scenarios. You work toward solutions
• You are fluent in English and German
  
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to learn from industry leaders and grow your career in a Fortune 500 company.
• A culture of continuous learning and development, including mentorship and formal training programs.
• Competitive salary and benefits, including health and vision coverage, along with employee wellness programs.
• A chance to make an impact by helping businesses grow through innovative Salesforce solutions.