Site Reliability Intern
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role overview
This is a full-time, paid, Summer 2026 intern position. Must be eligible to work 40 hours a week from June 2026 – August 2026. We are a hybrid environment and employees should anticipate working from our Boston, MA offices 60% of the time, or approximately 3 days per week.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, maintain and deploy observability-related systems that cover the full stack: Application & infrastructure telemetry, Application & infrastructure logs, Metric visualization platforms, Alerting management
- Help scale how our organization observes and operates across 200+ engineers and hundreds of services and artifacts, producing over 125 million log events and 4 million time series metrics per day
- Team up with SREs to refine observability needs regarding incidents and postmortems
- Educate and promote best-practices throughout the engineering organization
What you'll bring
- Hands-on Linux experience (familiarity with the linux CLI)
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or another cloud platform
- Familiarity with scripting or development in either Python, Java, Go, or shell
- Familiarity with containers (Docker) and interest in Kubernetes
- Familiarity or interest working in critical production environments
- Familiarity or interest in incident response procedures and operations
- A highly motivated individual that is willing to learn and has good collaboration skills
- You have a special passion for software engineering, are willing to innovate and move quickly
- Bonus: Familiarity with Terraform or another cloud orchestration tool
- Bonus: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Concourse
- Bonus: Familiarity with IP network routing, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls
The displayed range represents the expected hourly rate for this position.
Working at CarGurus
Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model encourages work-life balance and individual well-being.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus.