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We are seeking a talented Lead Software Engineer – Performance to deliver roadmap features of the Unified Asset Inventory ETM Platform, which helps customers Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cyber Risks.
You will lead performance engineering efforts across Java microservices, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and middleware APIs, ensuring that our real-time data pipelines and services meet enterprise-grade SLAs.
As part of our high-performing engineering team, you will design and execute performance testing strategies, identify system bottlenecks, and work with development teams to implement performance improvements that support the processing of billions of cybersecurity events per day across our data platform.
Responsibilities
- Own the performance strategy across distributed systems, including Spring Boot microservices, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Big Data components, and APIs for each release.
- Demonstrate solid expertise in performance engineering, including analysis of Heap Dumps, Thread Dumps, GC Logs, and CPU Profiling Reports, with hands-on experience using Apache JMeter, AppDynamics, Grafana, and Prometheus, and a deep understanding of JVM architecture, Garbage Collection, Threading, and Concurrency.
- Define, develop, and execute performance test plans, load tests, stress tests, and soak tests.
- Create realistic performance test scenarios for data pipelines and microservices based on production-like workloads.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks, resource contention, and latency issues using tools such as JMeter, Spark UI, Kafka Manager, Elastic Monitoring, and AppDynamics.
- Provide deep-dive analysis and recommendations for tuning and scaling Spark jobs, Kafka topics/partitions, Elasticsearch queries, and API endpoints.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, and infrastructure teams to integrate performance feedbac
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