Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Posted on
Jul 20, 2022
Profile
Are you passionate about learning new technologies and understanding how they work? Are you interested in an opportunity to work with an upbeat team to help drive its products to a new level? We are looking for a seasoned, creative Performance Engineer to help us focus on the scalability and performance of our products and build meaningful benchmarks that address customer experience.At Splunk, each and every release of our software is highly scrutinized to meet the demands of our customers. As a Sr. Performance Engineer, you’ll have a direct impact on our products’ success. You will collaborate with peers, field teams, and customers to understand and encapsulate the user scenarios into industry standard benchmarks. You will work with product management and interface directly with our customers to get direct exposure to the usage patterns we strive to satisfy. You will also drive projects to integrate benchmarking into our continuous integration and test automation frameworks.Role:Define, design and implement performance / scalability benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud productsEfficiently working with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottleneck, propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk productsImplement and improve sizing and capacity calculators for premium Splunk applications on the cloudResponsibilities:Demonstrated ability in Performance Engineering and BenchmarkingSkilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under loadAbility to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools: flamegraphs, pprof, pstack, qmlprofiler, perfPassionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimize product codeExperience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deploymentsExpert in scripting languages (Python) and compiled languages (C/C )Expert in distributed computing system and stackComfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administrationExtended QualificationsExperience with enterprise software capacity planning a huge plusExperience in SaaS, Microservice, Cloud Native software companies and projects a huge plusExperience with data science and ML a plusExperience with GPU a plusEducationBS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experienceWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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