For the second summer, Major League Hacking (MLH) is running the Production Engineering Track of the MLH Fellowship, powered by Meta. This 12-week educational program is 100% remote and uses industry-leading curriculum from Linux Foundation Training & Certification. The program is hands-on, project-based, and teaches students how to become Production Engineers. The goal of the program is for all participants to land a job or internship in the Site Reliability Engineering space, and it will be opened to 100 active college students who meet our admissions criteria.
This Summer’s program will start on May 31, 2022 and will end on August 19, 2022.
Applications are now open and will close on May 23, 2022!
What is Production Engineering?
Production Engineering, also known as Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps, is one of the most in-demand skill sets that leading technology companies are hiring for. However, it is not widely available as a class offering in university settings.
At Meta, Production Engineers (PEs) are a hybrid between software and systems engineers and are core to engineering efforts that keep Meta platforms running and scaling. PEs work within Meta’s product and infrastructure teams to make sure products and services are reliable and scalable; this means, writing code and debugging hard problems in production systems across Meta services – like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus – and backend services like Storage, Cache, and Network.
What is the Production Engineering Track of the MLH Fellowship?
Launched in the summer of 2020, the MLH Fellowship first focused on Open Source Software projects, pairing early career software engineers with projects and engineers from widely-used open source codebases (like AWS, GitHub, and Solana Labs). During the program, Fellows learned important concepts and software practices while contributing production-level code to their projects and showcasing those contributions in their portfolio. Through the Fellowship, 700 global alumni have learned Open Source skills and tools and increased their professional networks in the process.
The Production Engineering Track takes this proven fellowship model and expands on it. As part of the Production Engineering Track, fellows are put in groups of 10 (“Pods”), matched to dedicated mentors from Meta Engineering while they work through projects and curriculum, and receive guidance from Meta’s Talent Acquisition team, too. Successful program graduates will be invited to apply to full-time Meta internships.
What will admitted fellows learn in the Production Engineering Track?
Program participants will gain practical skills from educational content – adopted by the MLH Curriculum Team – licensed from the Linux Foundation’s “Essentials of System Administration” course. The program covers how to administer, configure and upgrade Linux systems, along with the tools and concepts necessary to build and manage a production Linux infrastructure. The complete list of topics covered in the program includes:
Linux Fundamentals
Scripting
Databases
Services
Testing
Containers
CI/CD
Monitoring
Networking
Troubleshooting
Interview skills
By pairing this industry-leading curriculum with hands-on, project-based learning – and engineering mentors from Meta – fellows in the Production Engineering Track greatly build on their programming knowledge. Fellows will learn a broader array of technology skills, opening the door to new career options in SRE.
What are the important dates I should know about?
The program will be available to roughly 100 aspiring software engineers and will start on May 31, 2022 and end on August 19, 2022.
Applications are now open and will close on May 23, 2022!
Will I get paid as part of the program?
Each successful participant will earn an educational stipend adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity for the country they’re located in.
Who is eligible?
Eligible students are:
Rising sophomores or juniors enrolled in a 4 year degree granting program
United States, Mexico, or Canada-based
Able to code in at least one language (preferably Python)
Can dedicate at least 30 hours/week for the 12-weeks of the program
MLH invites and encourages people to apply who identify as women or non-binary. MLH also invites and encourages people to apply who identify as Black/African American or LatinX. In partnership with Meta, MLH is committed to building a more diverse and inclusive tech industry and providing learning opportunities to under-represented technologists.
This article was originally posted at Major League Hacking.
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