Performance Engineer

Position: Performance Engineer

Duration: 1 Year Contract 

Location: Walnut Creek, CA

Direct client: Immediate Interview 

Responsibilities: 

- Perform performance/scalability testing on our backend messaging platform 

- The ideal candidate will have both the ability to create high-level benchmarks, working closely with Product Management and dev architects to define them, as well as the ability to develop micro-benchmarks to help isolate performance bottlenecks and confirm performance gains 

- Deploy and manage clusters spanning hundreds of nodes 

Requirements: 

• 5+ years industry experience 

• Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modelling of system behaviour under load 

• Strong understanding of Java performance: garbage collection, heap dump analysis, tuning, caching, throttling and Java profiling 

• Knowledge of statistical analysis and experimental design techniques 

• Good knowledge of Hadoop, Oracle and SQL 

• Deep knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (XML, SOAP, REST) 

• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking 

• Experience in system monitoring and problem troubleshooting 

• Equal comfort in Microsoft and Unix/Linux environments in terms of both tools and systems administration. 

• Experience in tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of complex large-scale deployments 

• Experience with Silk Performer tool is a plus 

• Experience with Java is a plus 

• Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks

Education: 

· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent