About Us:

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. We’re always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate – leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results.

When you’re part of Gen, you’ll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career – from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs.

At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team. You’ll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage.

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to be part of Gen.

About The Role:

We build scalable, efficient, and robust services to detect and mitigate online threats.

This is a summer internship position running from July 1 to September 30.

Our team of eight engineers specializes in high-performance microservices deployed primarily in Kubernetes, written mainly in Rust and Python, with a strong focus on anti-scam and anti-phishing features.

In this role, you will:

• Work alongside experienced engineers on real-world cybersecurity challenges

• Gain hands-on experience with microservices, databases, and cloud infrastructure processing thousands of requests per second

• Contribute to the development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of features within our stack

• Learn and apply technologies such as Kubernetes, Git, Unix tools, and scripting

• Explore new technologies and performance optimizations with support and mentorship from the team

About You:

• You have strong programming fundamentals in any language (e.g., Rust, Python, C++, Java)

• You have basic knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments.

• You understand databases (SQL and/or NoSQL).

• You are familiar with Git, Unix, and command-line tools.

• You are eager to learn, adapt quickly, and take on new challenges.

Nice to have:

• Advanced knowledge of Rust or Python.

• Experience with cloud computing and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with high-performance or distributed systems.

What's next:

If you're excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

The hiring process consists of one onsite interview, where you will meet Max, the hiring manager.

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusivity. We base employment decisions on merit, experience, and business needs, without considering race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or other unlawful factors. Gen prohibits discrimination based on these protected characteristics and recruits talented candidates from diverse backgrounds.

We consider individuals with arrest and conviction records and do not discriminate against employees for discussing their own pay or that of other employees or applicants. Learn more about pay transparency.

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.