Cloud Packet Capture Performance
Hamilton
An internship with Endace provides you with the ideal start to your engineering career; you will have a meaningful, challenging, and commercially relevant project to work on, with support from both a mentor and project manager.
Over the course of your 12-week internship you will be exposed to all the operational facets of a high performing high-tech organisation and be paid well while you’re doing it. It is truly the best kick start to a tech career you could ask for.
All our intern projects run from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027.
The Project
This project aims to improve packet capture performance for Endace virtual appliances in public and private cloud environments by leveraging the Linux Express Data Path feature. All major Cloud provider and virtualisation drivers have support for XDP (Amazon, Azure, Google, Oracle, VMware, KVM virtio). Usage of this technology can improve performance and lower overhead of capturing real traffic in Cloud and virtualised environments.
Candidates suited to this project should:
- Be enrolled in or recently graduated from a New Zealand tertiary education institution studying towards an undergraduate, honours, postgrad diploma/certificate or con-joint undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Engineering
- Have an understanding of basic networking
- Have the right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to participate in the programme in Hamilton, New Zealand.
- Familiarity with Linux shell commands
- Experience with C, Python
- Familiarity with networking and networking protocols
- Basic skills using Git version control
- Familiarity with Cloud or virtualisation environments desirable
How to Apply
Click on the link below. You will be asked for;
- CV showing details of projects you may have completed as part of your studies, and any work experience
- Copy of your academic transcript or equivalent
- Covering letter indicating:
- which project or projects you are applying for
- your key area of interest or specialization, and
- a statement on what benefits your preferred project choice will have to your studies and future career path.
Applications will close on Friday 25 September 2026.
Endace is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to creating an inclusive environment for all.