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Software Engineering Intern Data Cloud Query / Hyper

Start date: 5th October 2026

Location: Munich

Duration: 3 months

We are thrilled to invite ambitious student candidates who would like to build a career in Salesforce to apply for our Internship Program.

This exciting program is designed to built the foundational skills for a Software Engineering role to begin a Salesforce careers.

Our Internship program is a fully immersive experience, combining comprehensive learning paths with in-role experience. You will be assigned experienced Software Engineer manager who will provide hands-on coaching.

By joining Salesforce, you will have the opportunity to lay the foundation for a fast-paced, successful career We are a proud member of the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work list for the past 14 years and a consistent winner of Great Place to Work awards.

As a Software Engineering Intern on the Data Cloud Query team, you will contribute to Salesforce's next-gen database technology Hyper, which powers Salesforce Data 36O. Hyper is designed and built for high-performance analytical workloads in a diverse range of settings from scalable cloud environments to workstations and laptops running all major operating systems.

Together with a your team you will design and build impactful trustable solutions that are used in a variety of use cases, helping our customers perform interactive analytics of the freshest state of data across Salesforce products.

What you’ll be doing

• Build new features that advance Hyper’s capabilities.

• Improve Hyper’s performance through new algorithms, concurrency and scaling.

• Extend and improve Hyper’s data format, query execution and query optimizer to help our customers analyze their data faster

• Improve Hyper’s resource governance across a wide range of devices.

• Extend our SQL dialect to bring new capabilities to Hyper.

• Enable Hyper’s extensibility through expressive and easy-to-use APIs.

• Communicate technical ideas at all levels of the organization.

• Support peers in building scalable distributed systems.

Who you are

• PhD Student

• You know modern C++ and enjoy collaborating, learning from and teaching others. It is a plus if you are familiar with Database engineering, cloud-native technology and Kubernetes.

• You're Self-Motivated. You take initiative and can turn ideas into real features. You enjoy discussing scenarios, designs and their tradeoffs with your team.

• You have a Growth Mindset You are not satisfied by the status quo and work with those around you to improve the quality of our systems, code, teamwork and engineering practices.

• You are Customer Focused. You regularly think from the customer perspective. You want to learn about customers, their challenges & scenarios. You work toward solutions

• You are fluent in English and German

What We Offer

• The opportunity to learn from industry leaders and grow your career in a Fortune 500 company.

• A culture of continuous learning and development, including mentorship and formal training programs.

• Competitive salary and benefits, including health and vision coverage, along with employee wellness programs.

• A chance to make an impact by helping businesses grow through innovative Salesforce solutions.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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