Application Performance Intern

Description

Overview

Cybercrime is projected to inflict $13.82 trillion in annual damages by 2028—and that number is only climbing. As the digital battlefield becomes the most lucrative and volatile arena for criminal enterprise, risk3sixty is leading the charge with bold, strategic defenses. Through our fullCircle platform, we’re redefining operational excellence—empowering clients and the industry to stay resilient, agile, and ahead of the threat curve.

We are seeking a driven Application Performance Intern who is excited to gain hands-on experience in monitoring and improving the performance of a production-scale software as a service application. In this role, you will collaborate directly with the engineering team to proactively design, implement, and refine tooling that identifies performance bottlenecks and improves the speed and scalability of our platform.

This is more than an internship—it’s your launchpad into a dynamic industry, surrounded by a team that dreams big, embraces risk, and challenges convention.

Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Research and assess performance monitoring and observability tools that align with the needs of a lean engineering team
• Implement instrumentation within the application to collect and analyze key performance metrics (e.g., query execution time, page load time)
• Identify slow-performing areas in the system and propose actionable improvements
• Collaborate cross functionally with users and other team members to prioritize and implement performance optimizations
• Gather and interpret user feedback to inform data-driven performance recommendations to the team
• Document findings, processes, best practices to ensure transparency and future scalability

Requirements

Education and Experience

• Actively pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field
• Proficiency with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript)
• Familiarity with SQL fundamentals and other relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) or other database query languages
• Experience with logging/metrics/tracing
• Basic understanding of SaaS architecture, APIs, front-end vs. back-end, and database interaction
• Experience identifying inefficiencies in code or systems
• High level of attention to detail, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience working in teams, using Jira, or documenting processes and findings
• Basic understanding of cloud environments (AWS experience is a plus)

Bonus:

• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry)

Physical Requirements??

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds at times?

Risk3sixty is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.?