Performance Engineer, Intern (Advanced Profiling & Tuning of Services)

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join our family tree. Backed by history, science, and technology, we’re creating a new world of connection, innovation, and understanding. Whether it’s reuniting long-lost relatives through DNA or unearthing new family stories from historical records, Ancestry empowers life-changing experiences. With over 20 billion digitized historical records, 100 million family trees, and 15+ million DNA kits sold, Ancestry is bringing the power of personal discovery to people around the world. Ancestry is looking for a highly motivated Performance Engineer Intern to join our Performance Engineering team. The Performance Engineering team is responsible for the Performance of the Ancestry.com site. We establish standards, analyze the site for opportunities to improve performance and drive initiatives to make needed improvements. Provide tools, frameworks, guides, and training that enable teams to evaluate and improve upon their performance. Perform technical assessments, profile and tune services, collaborating with teams in reducing costs while increasing the efficiency and resiliency of our solutions. As a Performance Engineer Intern on the Performance Engineering team, you will develop training material that can be used to help other engineers learn how to perform various aspects of performance engineering, from basic principles to advanced topics. You will learn how to profile and tune microservices based on Java and Nodejs within a container environment in AWS. As you learn these skills under the mentorship of the Senior and Principle Performance Engineers, you’ll create documentation, short videos, and examples that can be used to help others to learn these skills. The topics and skills you will learn will go wide and deep, so if you have a passion to learn, you’ll have the opportunity to have global impact in evolving ancestries capabilities and maturity, and the opportunity to develop skills in a discipline that has a high demand with a limited number of people skilled in this work.

What You'll Do

• Create basic to advanced load tests using open source tools (JMeter in this case). This is your hammer, just a tool, but one you’ll want to master
• Profile and tune services, both Java and Nodejs; as well as the containers they run in and platforms they run on; using existing monitoring tools, open source and commercial profiling tools, and platform/OS tools
• Create self-help training materials: documents, micro video presentations, guidelines, and examples
• Perform detailed analysis of services to solidify your learnings and skills, have a direct impact on some of the key features and services that the site depends upon
• As time permits, you’ll also delve into web page analysis, evaluation the communications flow and content delivery of our web pages to the end user; learning about key measures and actions we can take to make the site faster for our end users, including the impacts it has for our mobile and international users

Who You Are

• Must be currently enrolled in a university and graduating after Summer 2020
• Java development skills with foundational understanding of the JVM and Garbage Collection
• Experience with Linux, with the shell and navigation, and exposure to Linux internals tools
• Solid communications skills, working with teams across Ancestry from multiple locations
• Nodejs experience and understanding of the underlying V8 engine is desirable
• Experience with AWS technologies, containers and docker, and network services are desired

It takes customer obsession to pioneer and focus on what matters most, to tackle challenges, break through boundaries to create change, to stay on the cutting edge, and pioneer relentlessly. We are looking for the next generation of talent to drive the business, grow our people, and put the customer before all else. Our culture empowers journeys of personal discovery, giving you the freedom to participate in impactful projects and explore the intersections of our businesses: technology, data science, DNA science, product, design, marketing, legal, and more. We’re looking for innovative minds, diverse ideas, and for students interested in connecting personal discoveries and technology. Our interns enjoy mentorship and experience challenging work while receiving fantastic pay, fully-paid temporary housing, and having a fun captivating experience—we have it all. Oh, and did we mention the possibility of full-time employment once you graduate? IND1 #LI-SJ2 Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means Apply for this job