To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

About Futureforce University Recruiting

Our Futureforce University Recruiting program is dedicated to attracting, retaining and cultivating talent. Our interns and new graduates work on real projects that affect how our business runs, giving them the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the future of our company. With offices all over the world, our recruits have the chance to collaborate and connect with fellow employees on a global scale. We offer job shadowing, mentorship programs, talent development courses, and much more.

Job Category

Fixed Term & Temporary

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Software Engineering Intern Data Cloud Query / Hyper

Start date: 5th October 2026

Location: Munich

Duration: 3 months

We are thrilled to invite ambitious student candidates who would like to build a career in Salesforce to apply for our Internship Program.

This exciting program is designed to built the foundational skills for a Software Engineering role to begin a Salesforce careers.

Our Internship program is a fully immersive experience, combining comprehensive learning paths with in-role experience. You will be assigned experienced Software Engineer manager who will provide hands-on coaching.

By joining Salesforce, you will have the opportunity to lay the foundation for a fast-paced, successful career. We are a proud member of the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work list for the past 14 years and a consistent winner of Great Place to Work awards.

As a Software Engineering Intern on the Data Cloud Query team, you will contribute to Salesforce's next-gen database technology Hyper, which powers Salesforce Data 36O. Hyper is designed and built for high-performance analytical workloads in a diverse range of settings from scalable cloud environments to workstations and laptops running all major operating systems.

Together with a your team you will design and build impactful trustable solutions that are used in a variety of use cases, helping our customers perform interactive analytics of the freshest state of data across Salesforce products.

What you’ll be doing

Build new features that advance Hyper’s capabilities.
Improve Hyper’s performance through new algorithms, concurrency and scaling.
Extend and improve Hyper’s data format, query execution and query optimizer to help our customers analyze their data faster
Improve Hyper’s resource governance across a wide range of devices.
Extend our SQL dialect to bring new capabilities to Hyper.
Enable Hyper’s extensibility through expressive and easy-to-use APIs.
Communicate technical ideas at all levels of the organization.
Support peers in building scalable distributed systems.

Who you are

PhD Student
You know modern C++ and enjoy collaborating, learning from and teaching others. It is a plus if you are familiar with Database engineering, cloud-native technology and Kubernetes.
You're Self-Motivated. You take initiative and can turn ideas into real features. You enjoy discussing scenarios, designs and their tradeoffs with your team.
You have a Growth Mindset. You are not satisfied by the status quo and work with those around you to improve the quality of our systems, code, teamwork and engineering practices.
You are Customer Focused. You regularly think from the customer perspective. You want to learn about customers, their challenges & scenarios. You work toward solutions
You are fluent in English and German

What We Offer

The opportunity to learn from industry leaders and grow your career in a Fortune 500 company.
A culture of continuous learning and development, including mentorship and formal training programs.
Competitive salary and benefits, including health and vision coverage, along with employee wellness programs.
A chance to make an impact by helping businesses grow through innovative Salesforce solutions.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.

We warmly invite applications from individuals with a severe disability status (Schwerbehinderung). Salesforce is committed to equality and creating a workplace that reflects society. We set ambitious goals for representation, emphasize accessibility and inclusion, and continuously learn and improve. Learn more about our inclusion initiatives here (https://www.salesforce.com/company/accessibility/workplace-resources/#ally-sf-benefits). In 2019, Salesforce joined The Valuable 500 to champion disability inclusion in business leadership.

Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

Software Engineering Data Cloud Query / Hyper - PhD Intern