Backend Engineer Intern, Engineering Infra - DBaaS (Aug - Dec 2025)

Shopee

The Engineering and Technology team is at the core of the Shopee platform development. The team is made up of a group of passionate engineers from all over the world, striving to build the best systems with the most suitable technologies. Our engineers do not merely solve problems at hand; We build foundations for a long-lasting future. We don't limit ourselves on what we can or can't do; we take matters into our own hands even if it means drilling down to the bottom layer of the computing platform. Shopee's hyper-growing business scale has transformed most "innocent" problems into huge technical challenges, and there is no better place to experience it first-hand if you love technologies as much as we do.

About the Team:

Shopee will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Shopee sponsorship of a visa.

Kindly note that you can only be considered in one recruitment process at a time within Sea Group and will be considered for jobs in the order that you have applied.

Our Database As A Service (DBaaS) team at Shopee’s Infrastructure Division is focused on building a scalable and reliable distributed database management platform to support our global e-commerce operations. We develop intelligent solutions for database governance, design cutting-edge cloud-native database services, and explore the deep integration of AI into database operations. Through these efforts, we aim to drive greater automation, stability, and efficiency across our systems, empowering the continued growth of Shopee’s business worldwide.

Job Description:

  • Develop and maintain high-performance, large-scale backend services of database product
  • Collaborate with the DBA and other infra teams to provide technical solution for database product ecosystem
  • Execute and implement technical designs
  • Troubleshoot online related to business logic or performance

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
  • Familiar with at least one backend programming language such as Golang,Java or Python
  • Strong in logical thinking and problem solving skills, actively seeking challenges
  • Strong ownership, good communication skills, having teamwork spirit and capable of working independently under pressure
  • Passionate about coding and programming, innovation, and solving challenging problems
  • In-depth understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, etc)

Good To Have

  • Hands-on experience with Golang
  • Familiar with relational databases such as MySQL
  • Familiar with Kubernetes and container
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