Monitoring & Alerting Engineering Intern (100%)

End-to-End Ownership: You take ownership of a real, end-to-end project, from understanding operational needs to delivering a standardized, scalable alerting framework.  

Stakeholder Needs: You engage with different teams to identify critical monitoring requirements and analyzing which events truly require alerting versus noise reduction. 

Grafana Alerting: You build and configure alerts in Grafana based on data from PostgreSQL, defining thresholds, triggers, and escalation logic. 

Cross-Team Alignment: You collaborate across facilities and backbone teams to drive consistency and harmonization of monitoring approaches. 

Alert Communication: You create and organize Microsoft Teams alert channels aligned with the right audience and ensure alerts reach the appropriate stakeholders at the right time. 

Standardization: You develop consistent naming conventions and alert phrasing, ensuring clarity, usability, and actionable messaging. 

Data & Queries: You write and optimize SQL queries for alerting logic and work with data pipelines feeding Grafana dashboards.

Requirements:

Educational Background: You are pursuing or have recently completed (within the last year) a BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Data Engineering, IT, or a related field. 

Technical Foundation: You have basic knowledge of SQL and data analysis and are highly interested in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure systems. 

Collaboration & Communication: You have good communication skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders. 

Adaptability & Creativity: You demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and creativity, especially when working with unknown or incomplete information. 

Working Style & Ownership: You are reliable, performance-driven, maintain a structured way of working, and are proactive in driving topics independently. 

Teamwork & Independence: You thrive in fast-paced team environments and are equally effective when working independently. 

Language Skills: You are fluent in English; German is an advantage. 

Availability: You are available for a full-time 6-month internship, ideally starting in September 2026. 

Our promise: At Climeworks, you are accepted for who you are, and we are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply – regardless of background, identity, or experience. Studies show that women and individuals from minority backgrounds often only apply for jobs when they meet 100% of the listed criteria. If this sounds like you, don’t hold back. If you think you’d make a great fit for this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t check every single box. Let’s tackle one of humankind’s greatest challenges together.

What we offer:

At Climeworks, our six-month internships offer a hybrid work setup, giving you flexibility while ensuring valuable collaboration by working onsite at least three days per week. To maintain fairness, we follow a standardized salary process based on market benchmarks. For our internships based in Switzerland, the compensation is:

During BSc & MSc: CHF 2,000 per month

After completion of MSc: CHF 2,500 per month

Note: We do not accept candidate profiles through recruitment agencies.