Performance Engineer
SMART Global Holdings
- Maynard, MA
- $110,000-152,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, script, configure and run performance tests to validate system performance and stability.
- Analyze tests results and work with developers to identify performance bottlenecks and development enhancements.
- Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and work with developers on corrective actions.
- Provide technical assistance to improve system performance, capacity, reliability and scalability.
- Track and manage performance issues to resolution.
- Oversee system performance lifecycle and identify key metrics for performance improvements.
- Participate and represent performance and scaling needs in product and feature design with developers and product managers.
- Generate periodic performance reports for management review.
- Work directly with partners and customers to assist with system architecture design and evaluation to maximize performance and scalability.
- Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and suggest corrective actions.
- Technical Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- 8 years or more experience analyzing and characterizing performance of computer systems including:
- Experience configuring software packages such as databases, mail servers, web servers, etc
- Experience working on end-user system architecture and performance issues.
- Knowledge/experience in application development/scripting in one or more of the following - C#/Java/C++/Python
- Knowledge of performance benchmarks and some profiling/load testing tools
- Knowledge of hardware performance characteristics (storage subsystems, memory subsystems, networks, etc)
- Be a hands-on problem solver interested in performance engineering and understanding what makes applications, databases and systems performant and scalable.
- Love digging deep to find the needle in the haystack to find answers.
- Be a self-starter with the ability to deliver on time with quality and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.