Platform Engineer Intern

About Us

slice the way you bank

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

Platform Engineer Intern – 6 months Internship Opportunity at Slice

Location : On-site | Koramangala, Bengaluru, India

Available to join us immediately

What You’ll Do:

1. Collaborate with engineering teams to understand system architecture and help improve infrastructure reliability and scalability.
2. Assist in building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and release processes.
3. Work on containerization and orchestration tools to support scalable deployments.
4. Contribute to infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
5. Support monitoring, logging, and observability initiatives to improve system visibility and performance.
6. Participate in troubleshooting production and staging issues alongside senior engineers.
7. Gain hands-on exposure to cloud platforms and real-world distributed systems.
8. Contribute to improving developer experience by building internal tools and automation workflows.
9. Explore and experiment with AI-driven automation tools to enhance infrastructure efficiency and operational excellence.

What We’re Looking For:

1. Used Agentic AI coding tools build any real life applications
2. Worked on AI-related projects, especially in automation or system optimization.
3. Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or any object-oriented language.
4. Basic understanding of Linux systems, networking concepts, and shell scripting.
5. Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
6. Basic knowledge of containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
7. Exposure to any of the CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
8. Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus.
9. Interest or exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus.
10. Good hands-on coding ability with a problem-solving mindset.
11. Strong curiosity about distributed systems, scalability, and reliability engineering.
12. Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in an agile team.
13. Excellent communication skills.
14. Most importantly, genuinely enthusiastic about technology, eager to learn, and hungry to build impactful systems.

Bonus Points If You:

Have built or contributed to automation frameworks in personal or academic projects.

Are genuinely excited about fintech products and user-first design.

Love exploring new tech stacks, tools, and platforms.

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

Competitive salaries. Period.

An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.

Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.

Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.

A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.

Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.

Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.