Community Platform Developer Intern

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Have you ever wanted to intern inside the cloud?

Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

We want an intern who is passionate about building an online community for millions of developers.

The Web Platforms team supports our community and marketing efforts by building and iterating on all public facing sites and applications (ie DigitalOcean Community, Hacktoberfest, Marketing site). This development role will be primarily responsible for developing new features, functionality and tests across the DigitalOcean Community app.  

DigitalOcean’s Community is focused on helping developers learn and share knowledge. It's comprised of Technical Tutorials, Q&A, and Developer Tools that help millions of developers every month solve challenging technical problems and learn new things.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Working with Community Designers, Developers and Writers to implement features and improvements that help developers learn new things.
  • Contributing front-end and server-side updates to the Community Rails App that serves millions of developers every month
  • Collaborating with other developers via GitHub workflows to build, test, review and ship code.

Why You’ll Like Being An Intern At DigitalOcean:

  • We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
  • We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development.  You’ll need to be great to be an intern here, and we promise you’ll get even better.
  • We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We will offer intern meetups and outings throughout the program to connect you with your fellow interns and the DO community.
  • We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

This role is a summer 2020 internship located in our NYC office.

Department: Marketing

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