About Us:

HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands. HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online.

Opportunity:

As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture isone that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas. We are looking for talented and passionate software development interns to make an impact on our industry leading Cloud Engineering team. You will work along side a highly-experienced team of engineers from various academic and industry backgrounds.

Data Visualization: Build rich andinteractive visualizations and user experiences for HomeAway's cutting edge Cloud Graph platform. This is an internal incubation project that offers exciting technology, world-class data visualization, and a compelling problem space. You will collaborate with our high caliber incubation team to help craft magical user experiences and help define the future of visualization for cloud computing.

Graph Database: Build new architectural enhancements, rich data feeds, and graph-based computations for HomeAway's Cloud Graph platform. This is an internal incubation project that offers exciting technology, cutting-edge knowledge engineering, and world-class data visualizations. Work with our high caliber incubation team and help us innovate and deliver the future of manageability for Cloud Computing.

Development Tools: Help build best practices for developing next generation cloud infrastructure solutions. Partner with world class engineers on leveling up our CI/CD pipeline managementand performance. Play a key role in enhancing the speed with which we deploy ourworld class e-commerce marketplace. Work with teams to design and implement the routing and service mesh that forms the core of our multi-PaaS micro-services platform. 

Technologies we use: 

Java 8, AWS, Node.js, D3.js, Kafka,Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, Jenkins, Github, Elasticsearch, Consult, Cassandra, Jersey, Jetty, KStreams, Mesos, and Linux

HomeAway’s Ideal Intern: 

• Currently pursuing a BS, or MS incomputer science or a related technical field 
• Excellent software development skillsutilizing multiple languages including Java or Python, Javascript, as well as other JVM based languages
• Organized problem-solving skills 
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure technologies and best practices
• Knowledge of UNIX/Linux/OS X environments preferred

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.