Software Engineering PMTS

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Job Category

Products and Technology

Job Details

As a Performance Engineer you will play a key role in our product’s success, you will collaborate with members of engineering, product and customer success teams, you will optimize the architecture, storage, algorithms, and deployment of Tableau workloads. You will start with open ended problems and deep dive into the service to root cause and fix the problem. You will play an instrumental role in driving product roadmaps to deliver performance and cost-effective infrastructure and software systems. In this role, you will contribute knowledge in areas including the design of experiments, data analysis and visualization, end-to-end performance analysis and debugging for single-node systems and distributed systems, and system design for performance.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in product design and lead product performance evaluations to solve software performance issues: Work with software developers closely to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency.

• Achieve a deep understanding of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real world deployment scenarios

• Deep dive into performance anomalies with the intent of discovering performance characteristics of our applications, find bottlenecks, and work with development teams on optimizations.

• Define, design, and implement instrumentations to generate metrics which provide relevant system characteristics

• Educate engineers to be more mindful of scalable software patterns and code optimizations

• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to boost performance

• Develop performance and scalability evaluation methodologies that accurately reflect and stress test the various real world customer use cases

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field.

• 3 to 5 years of experience in coding & scripting languages such as C, C , C #, Java, PHP, Python or Perl.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams.

• Ability to work effectively both autonomously and in teams

• Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills

• Excited by the challenge of hard technical problems

• Intense curiosity and willingness to question

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience analyzing and tuning operating systems, compilers, networking, IO subsystems, or accelerators.

• Experience debugging performance of multi-node (distributed) systems.

• Knowledge of experimental and statistical methods and tools for performance.

• Demonstrated ability to identify root causes of performance bottlenecks

• Solid understanding of OS, VM, and systems concepts like process management, memory management, file systems, networking, block storage devices, etc.

• Ability to identify and optimize performance bottlenecks at the code level in C , Java, and related languages.

• Skilled in the art and science of modeling of a system under load, identifying the correct benchmarks to represent it, and measuring the results

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