Digital Marketing Internship
Learn and exercise modern marketing strategies and automation as a Layer5 Digital Marketing Intern.
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If you’re a smart, curious person who can make contributions in and out of your areas of expertise, why not start now?
Open Source is in our DNA
Layer5 projects are open source software. Anyone can download, use, work on, and share it with others. It's built on principles like collaboration, globalism, and innovation. Layer5 projects are distributed under the terms of Apache v2.
We believe that all contributors should expect and be part of a safe and friendly environment for constructive contribution. We can more effectively and successfully compare and challenge different ideas to find the best solutions for advancement, while building the size, diversity, and strength of our community.
Layer5 Culture
All team members are expected to... take initiative, execute briskly, debate in the discussion, then execute post-haste on the decision, irrespective of the specific decision.
All team members should expect to... be challenged, to work hard, to play hard, to be recognized, to grow and help others grow.
You should... pay attention to detail and take pride in your work. Know when to prioritize and have the discipline to adhere to those priorities. Focus on the customer. Pay it forward and enable others. Bring solutions with the problems. Take out the trash (do grunt work) as needed.
Explore our world-class internship experience
At Layer5, we take our internships seriously. Interns are expected to work hard, learn much, and be recognized for doing so. Past interns have presented their projects at KubeCon, DockerCon, and similar technical conferences.
Our community of contributors is the key ingredient to the success of every one of our projects. Interns engage as part of the community. Whether interning directly with Layer5 or through one of Layer5's partner programs, your contributions will affect people you've never met as the Layer5 projects are being broadly referenced and used in organizations large and small.
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Layer5 is driven by its people, who are the stewards of our culture and principles. Join us on the journey to enabling the world's most innovative companies make the transition to cloud native and multi-cloud through engineering-empowered automation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I land an internship with Layer5?
To best position your candidacy for an internship with Layer5, engage in the community and its projects. Start contributing and keep contributing. Community members who consistently contribute are the first individuals to be awarded internships when new internship opportunities open up - particularly members who are making significantly impactful contributions.
Understand that internships are assigned as a recognition of work that you are already performing. They are not assigned in the hopes of you becoming a good contributor, but are awarded to support and reinforce efforts that you are already giving. Engage and make an impact on an area of a project. Show your passion for helping move the project forward, willingness to work hard, and capacity to learn.
Recognize that there are many hundreds of contributors and relatively few maintainers and MeshMates. If you don't get an immediate response, don't lose heart. Be tenacious and find a piece of one of the projects to be engaged with and advance.
How often does Layer5 offer internships?
Continuously. Layer5 has internships starting and stopping frequently. Some internships rigidly start and stop on particular dates, while other internships offered start as a batch of candidates show collective readiness. We work with individuals to align the timings of the internship with other activities in their life.
What are characteristics of successful interns?
Interns that thrive at Layer5 are those that espouse the Layer5 culture of paying it forward. These interns freely help other contributors, understanding that 1) they learn as they teach and assist others, 2) their projects are furthered with more contributors engage, and 3) any contributors path to maintainership is one of enabling others.
Successful interns steward projects naturally as they become a resource to other contributors. These interns frequently become component and/or core maintainers.
Successful interns internalize the fact that the real value of engaging and contributing to projects is the experience gained. They understand that the experience is theirs for the taking and that project maintainers and Layer5 employees want you to seize the opportunity. We consider your success our success and embrace the concept that your meaningful engagement is to all our benefits.
What are accomplishments of successful interns?
Many Layer5 interns speak at large, public technology conferences like KubeCon, DockerCon, and so on. They write blog posts and share about their experience and learnings on social media. They engage with their whole self.
Many interns become open source maintainers, and have ongoing responsibility to steward Layer5 and CNCF projects.
Are internships offered based on previous experiences or projects?
Internships are offered based on our commitment to supporting individuals who make a meaningful impact in the community and on our projects. While experience in other projects is wonderful and can be helpful as individuals strive to contribute meaningfully here, it is not a determining factor in whether or not an internship is appropriate to award. The metric we use is whether the individual demonstrates a sustained and positive impact on the projects we steward. We extend support to anyone who achieves this, often in the form of an internship if it proves beneficial to the individual.
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The Layer5 community includes software engineers, researchers, students, artists, system administrators, operators and web designers -- all of whom will be happy to help you get started. We believe that all contributors should be afforded a safe and friendly environment for constructive learning. Our projects are improved through diversity and empathic community.
Open source contributors come in all shapes, sizes, colors and so on. All are welcome in the Layer5 projects and community!!
Layer5 goes out of its way to welcome and encourage new contributors. We often assign newcomers an onboarding buddy, a MeshMate, to ensure that newcomers get both introduced to the projects within the community and introduced around to other individuals. We strive to help them get a foothold on a crevice of one of our initiatives, instilling and nurturing a sense of ownership, so that they feel at-home as they become a regular contributor.
We also spend a great deal of time trying to recognize and uplift contributors on the Layer5 and Meshery Twitter accounts whether “contribution” means code or any of the other various forms of being involved int the projects and community. Likewise, we try to lift up contributors’ works on the Layer5 and Meshery LinkedIn pages, too. And, while it’s not a world stage, we openly and publicly share our community meetings on YouTube.
