Job Description:

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Rakuten Advertising provides advertising technology and consumer insights to the world’s leading brands and retailers. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising unites technology, client strategy and consumer insights to deliver advertising experiences that drive increased brand awareness and marketing performance. With access to Rakuten’s diverse media properties and audiences, combined with an award-winning performance network and proprietary consumer research, Rakuten Advertising creates the right conditions to reach new customers and sustain long-lasting loyalty.

The Intern Experience:

At Rakuten, we pride ourselves on giving interns a genuine, immersive experience that has a direct impact on company objectives. You will do meaningful work, and with us, you’ll be a true member of the team. We are also invested in your growth as an individual and professional. That’s why you can expect curated events such as professional development workshops, interactions with Rakuten leadership, and relationship building opportunities with other interns and professionals at the company.You can visit rakuten.us and our Muse profile, to learn more about Rakuten’s culture and values, as well as hear from last year’s interns.SUMMARY: The DevOps Engineering team at Rakuten is looking for new interns that are passionate to learn about new technologies related to cloud computing, automation, security, development, network operations, and all about running a high-performance and highly scalable infrastructure.  You will learn cutting-edge Internet technologies in a real-world environment and gain hands-on experience working together with DevOps engineers, Security Engineers, and Software Developers.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Explore new cloud computing technologies and solutions to enhance operational excellence.Work hand in hand with Senior DevOps engineers to implement DevOps best practices and automation.Work with tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI, and other cloud computing technologies.Analyzing, documenting, and resolving technical and application issues in collaboration with other team members.Review and update technical documentation.MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:Basic knowledge of Cloud Computing Services such as AWS or GCPDesire to learn new technologies related to programming, cloud computing, and cyber security.Background in Computer Science or EngineeringQUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:          Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree in progress

At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the hourly rate for this role will be between $30.00 - $35.00/hr. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. 

Five Principles for Success
Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best
Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory
Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile
Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.