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Loved the article.

Whenever I read articles or releases by Fly.io, it makes me want to work with them. As a newbie who's interested in databases and networking, I reckon it would be an amazing experience in the team.

Unfortunately, they do not hire interns or likewise (from their job page) and I assume, from the amazing work they do, they aren't looking for beginners. =)

EDIT: Thanks to people encouraging me to apply. I'll definitely try!

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We do hire entry level people, in fact we're wrapping up our first cohort of interns right now. Exclusively hiring experienced dudes from the tech bubble is a failure mode in the long run. We're invested in hiring folks with diverse backgrounds and experience levels, and we need to talk about that more for sure.

Our jobs page is sparse right now because we’re focusing on hiring EMs to help grow a healthy eng org. We’ll have more openings before long, and you should absolutely apply when something sounds right. Feel free to hunt me down online in the mean time!

Since you mention hiring EMs, is there a place to view the open roles for EMs?

The jobs page seemed mostly IC focused

Start the application transaction. If it fails you'll just roll back to current state in your career log (resumé). Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Just make sure you are in at least read committed isolation

More likely to succeed with an application than an assumption of failure :)

If there's something you want, it might work better to just straight up ask them for it.

Not only just apply, but definitely try to network with people on the team. Works well if they're active on twitter. I got my first internship by building a rapport with someone on twitter and then they worked with their org to find an internship opening for me (still had to interview and stuff) that wasn't on their careers site.

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