Performance Engineer

2 days ago


Boston, Massachusetts, United States Ascendum Solutions Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Only W2 candidates will be considered for this role, C2C or 1099 employment terms are not available for this role

Senior Software Performance Engineer

This position consists of building out a new platform as part of the evolution of a financial retail product offering. This will be one of the rare career opportunities where you get to experience the newest technologies on a greenfield project. We are seeking an individual with a strong background in performance testing and has knowledge of multiple application infrastructures.

Experience

  • Experience working with a large-scale engineering team defining and developing performance test strategies
  • Expert in defining fundamental design principles for building a scalable application on cloud infrastructure like AWS
  • Deep knowledge of middleware Java stack, Oracle, messaging technologies and web containers
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile software delivery environment, with exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery tools.

Purpose of the role

You will work with your squad to develop test strategies using project artifacts as well as in depth interviews of architects and development leads to assure capacity and stability of the applications meets requirements for production deployment. Assist the team in defining SLA's for various functional components in the platform and communicating performance testing results and identify areas for improvement with stakeholders.

  • You will participate in design and implementation of software solutions and ensure they meet non-functional requirements and that are aligned to the program's strategic direction.
  • You will ensure that component and system level SLA's for a mission critical platform are adhered to.
  • You will engage with a global team of engineers in leading best practices for performance engineering.

Skills

  • Excellent analytical skills and extensive troubleshooting experience of performance throughput issues.
  • You have experience with enterprise cloud enabled distributed systems.
  • Thorough understanding of distributed systems, Internet principles and statistical data analysis
  • Ability to identify application bottlenecks and assist engineers with improving application performance and reducing latency
  • Experience in Financial Industry a plus

Technical Skills

1) Performance Optimization - To indicate if the candidate has experience with CPU/Memory, I/O or algorithmic optimization experience.

2) Experience with Profiling i.e. evaluate Performance bottlenecks.

3) Performance Scaling - To design systems that perform well under high load/complexity

4) Extensive experience with Dynatrace or similar, Datadog & Splunk



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