At Sentry, we realize that getting valuable, hands-on experience is important for you and your career. We offer a great opportunity for a UW-Madison or Edgewood College student to partner your ongoing education with a highly successful and well-compensated job all while actively enrolled in college. Our co-op program is designed to provide you the opportunity to gain valuable experience in your major while working in our downtown Madison office on State Street.

What You’ll Do

You’ll gain valuable, real life, hands-on experience while working on a series of projects that involve developing and maintaining new websites, services, and applications primarily written in Java.  We’ll look to you to work with Sentry’s developers and architects to design applications and follow processes to ensure continuous operations of our existing systems and programs.

In addition, you’ll:

• Design, code, test and debug while maintaining programs
• Utilize and adhere to Sentry’s Agile Solution Development Life Cycle (SDLC) project management methodology
• Adhere to Sentry Information Technology standards and procedures

What it Takes

In order to be eligible for this elite opportunity you must meet the following criteria:

• Current full-time college student
• Majoring in computer science, computer engineering or a related field
• Graduating December 2026 and beyond
• Ability to work between 12-20 hours per week during the school year in a minimum of 2-hour increments
• Ability to work 40 hours per week in the summer following a hybrid work schedule
• The desire to learn new technologies
• Sentry does not offer employment in this program to holders of F-1, J-1 and H-1 Visas for the purpose of obtaining practical experience

What You’ll Receive

Within this exciting co-op program, you’ll receive the following:

• Competitive compensation
• Automatic enrollment in our Sentry Work Life Resource Program
• The potential for full-time employment upon graduation

Why Sentry

Our bright future is built on a long track record of success. We got our start in 1904 and have been helping businesses succeed and protect their futures ever since. Because of the trust placed in us, we are one of the largest and strongest mutual insurance companies in the United States. We’re rated A+ by A.M. Best, the industry’s leading rating authority.

You can own your future at Sentry. Opportunities await.

Sentry is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Employment Opportunity

Sentry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy that there be no discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation.