Performance Engineer

You’ll define the strategy, establish what excellence looks like, and create systems that make performance a default outcome.

• Proven experience to validate and sign off production readiness of software applications and infrastructure for stability and performance
• You will be responsible for connecting performance outcomes to business objectives and companywide SLOs and guide engineering teams in keeping the stack scalable and efficient
• Lead the architecture and development of performance profiling and instrumentation infrastructure, covering CPU, memory, request hot paths, utilization and deployment events
• Partner with dev ops and back-end engineering team to ensure all services operates at optimal utilization
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and low-level systems boundaries using logs, metrics, tracing and performance tooling
• Learn quickly and enjoy ramping up on new technologies and unfamiliar parts of the stack

• 10 plus years of Java Engineering with Performance focus in core Java Technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required
• Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous workers
• An understanding of microservice architecture and cloud-based deployments
• Strong familiarity with any cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform
• Deep Understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale, including architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks
• You know the internals of JVM and have experience in tuning, Memory Management, and Thread Management to optimize existing services
• Experience with profiling and instrumentation tools - Dynatrace/Datadog/AppDynamics
• Experience analyzing thread and heap dumps
• Experience identifying memory leakage, connection issues & throughput bottlenecks in various technologies such as web application(s), infrastructure, and Cloud
• Strong communication and influence skills; comfortable driving technical direction with senior engineering and product leadership
• Have a track record of leading sophisticated performance initiatives and driving decisions across teams or critical product areas
• You have Excellent collaboration and Interpersonal skills
• You have phenomenal attitude, are a willing mentor, great teammate and effective contributor
• You have focus on productivity
• Nice to have experience in Capital markets or Crypto Currency specifically with exposure to Trading, Algo Trading & Market Data
• Nice to have experience using kernel bypass e.g., Solar flare Open Onload
• Nice to have experience with low latency messaging products, such as Aeron, Solace or 29West

Must Haves:

• 6 + years of experience at minimum - this is a senior performance engineer
• Strong Performance Testing experience (load, stress, endurance, spike, soak, volume, capacity)
• Have conducted this testing on services with low latency, high throughput, high volume requirements (trading services would be ideal)
• Strong understanding of JVM (services are Java Spring boot)
• Accustom to distributed cloud environments, containerized apps and container orchestration and collaborating with devops, cloudops, BE engineers to optimize performance and reliability of systems
• Experience with profiling and instrumentation tools - Dynatrace/Datadog/AppDynamics 2 rounds: 1st is virtual, final will be on site

Digipulse Technologies, Inc (DTI) is a software solutions company offering focused IT services to fortune 1000 clients. We provide services in enterprise application development, system integration & support services for Insurance, Financial, Hospitality, Telecommunication, Pharmaceutical & Banking sectors. We are currently sourcing for a Senior Performance Engineer to work in Jersey City, New Jersey!