Solutions Engineer Intern

Fermyon Technologies is a software company building the next wave of cloud computing based on WebAssembly. By producing top-quality open source software and related tooling, we are creating a new category of cloud computing that prioritizes high performance, robust security, and top-notch developer and operator experiences. We contribute heavily to the WebAssembly ecosystem, including Spin, now a CNCF sandbox project, and we build commercial products like Fermyon Wasm Functions and Fermyon Platform For Kubernetes.

We believe that the best way to build this next generation of cloud technology is by fostering a positive culture rooted in our values.

Fermyon is committed to a culture of belonging, inclusivity, and respect. We believe that different perspectives—shaped by life experiences, education, talent, and interests—are essential for creating thriving teams. We welcome the unique contributions you bring in terms of your culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, spoken languages, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, opinions, political preferences, and overall beliefs. If you’re someone who values people and embraces differences, Fermyon is the place for you!

The position

We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer Intern who’s excited to help developers understand and succeed with WebAssembly by building hands-on demos, small integrations, and other technical content. You’ll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and Sales teams to explore customer needs and prototype solutions using Fermyon’s products and CNCF-backed open source technologies like Spin.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building, learning, and communicating—whether you’re experimenting with the local developer experience, documenting a customer use case, or creating a sample that highlights a core platform feature.

This is a full-time paid internship ($25/hr), expected to last approximately 3 months during Summer 2025. Exact dates are negotiable.

Responsibilities

These are all the things we are thinking about. We’re looking for someone who can help us prioritize and do things the right way in the right time frame.

Get hands-on experience with Fermyon’s products as well as open source projects like Spin to understand how developers build and deploy Wasm workloads
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to create demos, sample applications, and integrations that solve real-world problems or showcase important use cases
Collaborate with customer-facing teams to turn common challenges into reusable technical solutions, templates, and proof-of-concept projects
Write clear, approachable documentation, guides, or blog posts that explain your work and help others reproduce it
Provide feedback on tooling, developer workflows, and areas where the user experience can be improved

Personal Qualities We Appreciate

Self-motivated, resourceful, logical thinker, organized and structured working style, articulate, with a commitment to high-quality service delivery and attention to detail, dependable, strong work ethic, positive attitude, inclusive approach, team player and customer-oriented

Requirements

At least one years of hands-on experience developing software across at least two of the following languages (listed roughly in order of preference):
- Javascript/Typescript
- Rust
- Python
- Go
- C#/.NET
- C/C++
- Zig
- Php
- Swift
- Grain
Prior WebAssembly experience is helpful but not required
Experience brainstorming, selecting, creating, and producing customer-oriented solutions
Experience creating solutions from the ground up, in a new technical area, leveraging subject matter experts
Agreement to embody the Fermyon values
Fluent English speaker

Bonus points for

Previous work with WebAssembly or cloud-native tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, containers, serverless platforms)
Experience writing technical content, giving talks, or publishing open source examples
Interest in developer enablement, DevRel, or technical pre-sales