SDE Intern - Reston, VA 2024

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. 

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing. 

 

Software Engineering - Intern Reston, VA

Why We Have This Role

As a software engineer at Qualtrics, you will be building systems to help our customers both understand and respond to the experience data provided by their customers or employees. Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work!

 

How You’ll Find Success

• Strong level of curiosity
• Ability to create trust in customers and teams through thorough communication
• Takes initiative and shows scrappiness in getting things done
• Proven ability to work well in teams - partnering with managers, cross functional teams, and teammates
• Takes analytical mindset to approach problems and find solutions
• Shows desire to learn new skills and grow in the role

 

How You’ll Grow

• Develop the ability to build scalable, fast, robust, and simple SaaS solutions.
• Develop familiarity with containerization and full-stack development.
• Learn to implement new functionality from provided requirements and specifications.
• Benefit from working with other engineers, tech-ops, and product managers
• Learn Agile methodologies by attending daily stand-up meetings, prioritizing tasks, and working with a sense of urgency to meet a scheduled plan to deliver value to our customers

 

Things You’ll Do

• You'll own a project. It will push you out of your comfort zone, and you'll see meaningful growth as a result.
  • Design distributed, low latency services for ingesting, processing, and aggregating data
  • Build integrations with SaaS leaders like Slack, Salesforce, and Tableau
  • Create analytics that identify trends and sentiment in free-form text data using natural language processing and machine learning
  • Build widgets for visualizing data in dashboards and reports
  • Develop an integrated ticketing platform that allows organizations to close the loop on customer feedback
  • Build world-class survey editing and survey taking experiences

 

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume

• Currently studying for a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• Experience with Web-related technologies including HTML/CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks including angular or node
• Experience with modern programming languages (Java, PHP, Scala)
• Database / Data Storage experience (SQL / MySQL)
• Strong level of curiosity
• Must be legally authorized to work in job location without Qualtrics sponsorship now or in the future
• Available for a 12 week internship during summer of 2024

 

What You Should Know About This Team

Our team is a collection of extremely passionate engineers who are riding the cutting edge of cloud computing and web scalability. We organize and sort terabytes of data and develop solutions that are used by millions of users every day. We design tools that make sophisticated research simple. Few teams offer such amazing learning opportunities and possibilities for advancement like the Qualtrics Engineering team.

 

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

• Relocation and financial support for housing.
• ExeQtive Chats connect you with our executive team through Q&As and discussions about their career journeys.
• You'll have opportunities to develop professional skills & learn more about career opportunities though business-spe