Systems Engineering Werkstudent
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Job description
LILY posted this role. Below, we break down what it means for a working student in Mannheim: your weekly hours, take-home pay and visa limits. You can also open ChatGPT or Claude with a ready-made prompt to tailor your CV, check your fit, draft a cover letter or prep for the interview.
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Description provided by LILY
LILY is building the next generation of cloud infrastructure. Instead of incrementally improving existing cloud stacks, we are rethinking the entire system from the ground up. We are developing an infrastructure where runtime, scaling, and orchestration are deeply integrated rather than existing as separate layers. The result is a fundamentally different cloud architecture that provides significantly greater control, performance, and efficiency.
As a Working Student in Systems Engineering, you will work across our Rust-based stack, from user-space services to our decentralized backend architecture. You will join a small, highly technical team and gain hands-on experience with modern distributed systems while contributing to the core of our platform.
- Develop system software and services in Rust
- Contribute to user-space services and our decentralized backend architecture
- Improve and extend our infrastructure stack and developer toolchains
- Analyze and optimize performance at the low-level systems layer
- Help design new approaches for distributed system architecture
- Collaborate closely with experienced systems engineers
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science
- Strong interest in distributed systems, operating systems, or low-level programming
- Experience with Rust or similar systems programming languages is helpful but not required
- Curiosity, a strong willingness to learn, and genuine enthusiasm for complex technical systems
- Ability to work independently and quickly pick up new technologies
- Competitive compensation
- Modern equipment, including a MacBook
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work environment
- Direct involvement in technically challenging infrastructure projects
- A startup environment with significant ownership, responsibility, and a steep learning curve
- At LILY, you won't just build features. You'll help shape the foundation of future software systems. You'll work on the technology that determines how software is executed, orchestrated, and scaled, solving problems at the infrastructure layer that will define the next generation of cloud computing.
Working student essentials
What this Tech working student role in Mannheim means for you: the weekly-hours rules, the social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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