Performance Optimization Engineer

1 week ago

Austin, Texas, United States Apple Full time
Overview

At Apple, our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals through innovative products. The Advertising Platforms division plays a crucial role in enabling users worldwide to access engaging and informative content on their devices while assisting publishers and developers in promoting and monetizing their creations. Our cutting-edge technology and services are the backbone of advertising at Apple, ensuring high performance and user privacy. We seek a dedicated engineer with a passion for building robust platforms. The Performance Quality Engineering (QE) team is essential in maintaining the health, monitoring, and scalability of our intricate systems, ensuring consistent performance.

Responsibilities

- Develop tools and frameworks that deliver real-time application performance insights correlated with system metrics.
- Create automation frameworks that enable applications to proactively predict and mitigate system failures, ensuring resilience.
- Analyze source code, profiling data, and system metrics to diagnose performance challenges.
- Conduct experiments and benchmarks to evaluate the performance of complex distributed systems and identify performance constraints.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Strategize and execute tests to assess low latency and high throughput applications.
- Design, prototype, and implement solutions that yield measurable performance improvements in production settings.
- Develop and execute frameworks for performance testing both online and offline systems.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and devise performance testing strategies, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
- Acquire the necessary product knowledge to assist in troubleshooting production performance issues.
- Validate product features for production readiness and approval.

Key Qualifications
  • Proven experience in crafting performance test plans and defining performance testing strategies, along with techniques for generating large datasets.
  • Strong proficiency in developing performance tests using open-source frameworks and the capability to create new frameworks as needed.
  • Experience in load testing with tools such as JMeter, Locust, and Gatling, including the development of extensions or plugins.
  • Solid understanding of HTTP client libraries, JDBC, gRPC, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools like DataDog, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and Splunk or similar platforms.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and AWS S3.
  • Ability to thrive in dynamic, agile teams, delivering highly scalable products to production.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Experience with CI/CD integration using Jenkins, AWS EMR, and Spark SQL is advantageous.
Education & Experience

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related field.

Additional Information

Apple is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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