Our intern program pairs you with seasoned professionals who've built enterprise security at scale. You won't fetch coffee, you'll ship code, review architectures, and present to real customers.
We built this program because we remember what it was like starting out. The gap between a classroom and a production security stack is massive, we bridge it.
No busy work. You'll work on production systems, the same codebase, the same infrastructure, the same customers. Your commits go to main, not a sandbox.
Every intern is paired with a senior engineer who's been in the industry 10+ years. Weekly 1-on-1s, daily standups, and an open-door policy for questions. No question is too basic.
By the end of your internship you'll have production experience, a reference letter, and real projects to show future employers. We want you to leave better than you arrived.
Get hands-on with zero-trust architecture, Key Management, SSO federation, device posture, policy engines, and compliance frameworks most engineers don't see until year five.
We cover the cost of one industry certification during your internship: AWS, Azure, CompTIA Security+, or similar. Study time is built into your schedule.
Our best interns get full-time offers. This isn't a revolving door, it's a pipeline. We invest in you because we want you to stay.
A structured program that ramps you from onboarding to owning a deliverable.
Get access to the codebase, meet your mentor, attend architecture walkthroughs, and complete a guided setup of your development environment. You'll deploy your first change to staging by end of week two.
Pick up real tickets from the backlog. Pair-program with senior engineers. Attend customer calls to understand how your work impacts real organizations. Code reviews teach you patterns no textbook covers.
You'll own a defined project end-to-end: design, build, test, deploy. Your mentor guides you, but you drive the decisions. This becomes the centerpiece of your portfolio.
Present your project to the entire team and leadership. Get feedback, celebrate your work, and leave with a reference letter. If you've crushed it, expect a full-time conversation.
All positions are paid internships starting June 2026. Remote-friendly with optional on-site time. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, apply early.
You'll work directly on the security infrastructure that protects our customers' credentials and AI interactions. This is hands-on engineering, writing code that enforces zero-trust policies, building encryption pipelines, and hardening serverless functions against real-world attack vectors.
Your mentor: A senior security engineer with 12+ years building enterprise security platforms. They've seen breaches, led incident responses, and designed the vault architecture you'll be working in. They'll teach you what no classroom can.
You'll be the person who catches what others miss. As a Cybersecurity Analyst intern, you'll monitor, investigate, and document security events across our platform. Think of yourself as the detective, you look at the evidence (logs, alerts, anomalies) and figure out the story.
Your mentor: A senior security analyst who's spent 10+ years in security operations, from SOC floors to compliance audits. They've written the detection rules that catch real attacks and will teach you how to think like both a defender and an attacker.
You'll work on the cloud infrastructure that powers everything: the serverless functions, databases, CDN, caching layers, and deployment pipelines. This is the foundation that MCP Fortress and PAT Fortress run on. If the security team is the vault door, you're the building it sits in.
Your mentor: A senior cloud architect with 15+ years building production infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies. They've designed systems that handle millions of requests per day and will teach you how to think about scale, cost, and reliability from day one.
Summer 2026 cohort starts June 2026. We review every application personally, no AI screening, no keyword matching. We care about curiosity and drive more than GPA.
Thank you for your interest in Kestra Labs. We'll review your application and get back to you within 5 business days.