Engineering

Krakow Office, Poland

- Hybrid Remote

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Role:

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 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.

Responsibilities:

Define, design and implement performance / scalability / reliability (PSR) benchmarks on Splunk Enterprise and Cloud products
Efficiently working with various profiling tools to identify performance and concurrency bottleneck, propose and implement optimizations to improve the Splunk products
Implement and improve sizing and capacity calculators for premium Splunk applications on the cloud
Demonstrated ability in Performance Engineering and Benchmarking
Skilled in both the art and science of benchmark creation and measurement and modeling of system behavior under load
Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks with profiling tools: flamegraphs, pprof, pstack, qmlprofiler, perf, nmon
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Requirements:

Passionate about finding software performance bottlenecks and optimize product code
Experience in solving problems of load, scale, and optimizations of sophisticated large-scale deployments
Expert in scripting languages (Python) and compiled languages (C/C++)
Expert in distributed computing system and stack
Comfortable with Linux, Docker, AWS, GIT, Artifactory in terms of both tools and systems administration
Experience with enterprise software capacity planning a huge plus
Experience in SaaS, Microservice, Cloud Native software companies and projects a huge plus
Experience with data science and ML a plus
Experience with GPU a plus
BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
5-7 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

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