SENIOR PERFORMANCE ENGINEER

Requirements

• At least the last 7-10 years of experience exclusively in performance testing and engineering, with no involvement in unrelated areas or breaks.
• Experienced in Performance Analysis and troubleshooting of production systems.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Domain expert on public cloud, distributed system, microservices architecture, and capacity planning
• Knowledge of AWS.
• Knowledge of programming language in order to write and execute performance testing (pref. Scala).
• Experienced in Performance engineering design, implementing, and automating benchmarks.
• Proven experience in performance, scalability analysis, and optimizations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of systems software and understanding of the impact of locking, caching, and I/O on software performance.
• Proven Performance tuning experience for infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
• Proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Ability to facilitate and arbitrate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls or recommendations.
• Work well in a distributed team environment.

• Establish performance benchmarks for the platform.
• Design, implement, and maintain a performance certification test harness.
• Contribute performance optimizations and refactoring on the entire stack of the platform.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Development Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to find the optimal way to scale applications and the infrastructure.
• Be an evangelist for performance best practices and tools.
• Troubleshoot complex configuration, infrastructure, networking, and application problems that could impact the performance or capacity of the product.
• Proactive end-to-end cluster scalability, performance, and exceptions analysis.
• Analyze root cause for latency in individual components and across the system
• Continually look for opportunities to improve our platform, process, and business

• Knowledge of Ruby.

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
• Annual performance appraisals.
• Remote-friendly culture and no micromanagement.
• Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.
• 15 PTO days, 10 national holidays.
• Free webinars, meetups and conferences organized by Svitla.
• Fun corporate celebrations and activities.
• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community