Spring Intern, Software Engineering - Part Time

Who We Are

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners - in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

SiriusXM

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a Software Engineering Intern for the Platform Services organization, you will be working with experienced engineers building backend Scala and Java APIs. You will be learning key aspects of software delivery that help you to achieve critical business objectives that drive value to customers.

As part of your internship you will be assigned a mentor and an exciting project that you will lead from inception to production delivery. You will learn modern software and cloud development in a supportive environment and gain experience in creating, deploying, maintaining high volume distributed systems used by millions of users.

The ideal candidate will be someone who is passionate about learning new technologies and best practices, working with highly collaborative engineering teams, delivering high quality products and striving to develop solutions to complex problems at high scale. The ideal candidate will value collaboration and teamwork and believe in trust, transparency, and kindness.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly as part of an engineering team that delivers new features and functionality with high quality and robust architecture which support SiriusXM and Pandora platforms.
• Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing demands of the business.
• Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems, constantly seek ways to improve at every iteration, make suggestions for improvements.
• Participate in architecture and technical discussions..
• Learn and operate in all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Build cloud-based data warehouse pipelines using standard big data components (Spark, Iceberg) and AWS services (EMR Serverless, S3, Athena, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue).
• Use source control systems (Git and GitHub) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to continuously deploy applications to production.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• Internships are open to current students enrolled at a university (those graduating by January 2027 are preferred) and recent graduates who graduated within the 12-month period prior to the start of the internship.
• Majors in computer science or a related field preferred.
• Previous experience in software or cloud development - work projects, internships, summer jobs, etc.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Java, Scala, Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript or Python.
• Must have a legal right to work in the US.
  
  

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be $37-40/hr and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.

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