Description

Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world’s leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it’s our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we’ve won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.

Role Summary

Splunk is looking for interns for Summer 2024! 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.

What you’ll get to do

• 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.

Must-have Qualifications

• 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
• At least one semester/quarter remaining to complete after the internship
• Available to work 40 hours a week for 12 weeks

Nice-to-have Qualifications

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

• 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

Our Splunktern Program allows incoming interns the flexibility to choose from three start dates, currently anticipated to be:

• Monday, May 20, 2024
• Monday, June 3, 2024
• Monday, June 17, 2024

Candidates should consider their availability to start on one of these three dates prior to submitting an application. Please note: the dates above are subject to change at Splunk’s sole discretion.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Note:

Base Pay is based on a candidate completing 3 years of university or the academic equivalent

Base Pay

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay: $45 per hour

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay: $41 per hour

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay: $35 per hour

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills, year in school and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for benefits.

Thank you for your interest in Splunk!