Performance Engineering Intern

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision-making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable. 

Are you ready for an internship as a Performance Software Engineer, working for a fast-paced and innovative tech company? We are searching for recent graduates who are enthusiastic to learn more about the technology that enables the Self-Driving Enterprise: a cognitive operating system that connects you with your business and autonomously orchestrates your operations. This internship will require problem-solving, creative thinking, and offers a chance for professional evolution based upon feedback. You will have the freedom to develop your own ideas as you work alongside our core engineering product team in solving some of our most challenging technical issues. By the end of this 6-month internship, you will have gained experience and skills that will be advantageous to anyone hoping to jumpstart their career in high technology.

This role will be based in our Pune office.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Senior Performance Engineers to support the team by collaboratively working for completing key and necessary activities in the performance engineering process - namely test simulation, data utility creation using any preferred programming language, stats gathering, analysis, inference and submissions
• Collaborate and work closely with Sr. Performance Engineers to undertake short and focused training in line with the assigned performance test areas, tools, methodology etc.
• You will perform other performance engineering tasks, as may be required to produce outcomes within defined timelines

About You

• Should have knowledge of Java or Python programming knowledge
• Basic hands-on SQL exposure
• Good to have basic knowledge of JMeter or any performance testing tool. 
• Should possess good logical, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Good and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Open to receive and keenly participate in mentoring activities and training conducted by performance engineers as needed to perform better in this role
• Knowledge of Linux along with hands-on exposure to shell scripts will be preferred
• Knowledge of HTTP, Web, REST API is preferred
• Good to have basic knowledge of Cloud computing
• Plus points if aware of web/api performance best practices
• To have conceptual knowledge on how n-tier client server applications work and components that make them e.g. client, web, application and database servers
• Software testing and performance engineering is fun. As such the candidate should be keenly interested in performing 'testing' activities consistently throughout the assigned duration

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let’s build this!

Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits Summary 

At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You’ll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When you’re working from the office, you’ll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages.