Job Description

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role:

Splunk is looking for interns for Summer 2023! As a Performance Engineer Intern, you will work on a real project (or a few) and have an opportunity to enjoy our dynamic, startup-like environment.

You will experience Splunking and what defines our culture while honing the skills which separate our development teams from others. Working to support internal and external customer needs, you will collaborate with multi-functional teams, receive mentorship, and gain insight into our values-driven process. Our goal is both to support your growth and development while empowering you for a successful start to your career.

You will get to work with smart and hardworking individuals who are doing state of the art development work (native mobile, web front-end and back-end, DevOps) in areas of machine learning, data analytics, infrastructure and event correlations across silos to build best-in-class business analytics software. You will be interacting with product management and customers to understand detailed requirements. You will also work with other engineering teams across Splunk to design and build high-performance solutions.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with peers, field teams, and customers to understand and encapsulate the use cases into industry standard benchmarks.
• Work with Performance Stability & Reliability (PSR) senior leads and involve in customer engagement proof-of-concept projects to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy.
• Drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks. At Splunk, each and every release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers.
• Define, code and perform performance/scalability benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud products.
• Work with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottlenecks, and propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk product.
• Code and improve sizing and capacity calculators for key Splunk applications on the cloud.

Basic Requirements:

• Actively pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field, and a strong record of academic achievement.
• Applicants should have a minimum of one quarter/semester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes.
• The Splunk internship program runs for a minimum of 10 weeks, up to a maximum of 12 consecutive weeks with start dates between May and June 2023. Applicants should be available to participate full-time (40 hours/week) in an internship during this time.

Preferred Requirements:

• Knowledge of software engineering processes, agile framework, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language, preferably Python), methods, test development, algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments
• Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages including but not limited to Go, C++, Java, Python, Javascript
• Experience with scripting languages (Python) and compiled languages (C/C++) is a plus.
• Familiarity with tools and technologies like Git, AWS, Linux, Docker and Artifactory is a plus
• Experience in tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of complex large-scale deployments is a plus
• Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools, pstack, qmlprofiler is a plus

What We Offer You:

• A fun and collaborative environment with many exciting events from interacting with other interns to conversations with our executive leadership team.
• A constant stream of new things for you to learn. We’re always expanding into new areas, bringing in open source projects and contributing back, and exploring new technologies.
• A set of exceptionally talented and dedicated peers, all the way from engineering and QA to product management and customer support.
• Growth and mentorship. We believe in growing engineers through ownership and leadership opportunities. We also believe mentors help both sides of the equation.
• A stable, collaborative and supportive work environment.

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

(Colorado only*) Minimum hourly rate of $34.00. *Note: Disclosure per sb19-085 (8-5-201 et seq).

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Internship.

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