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Performance Engineer
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Performance Engineer I designs and executes performance, scalability, and micro-benchmark testing on a backend messaging platform, collaborates with product and architecture teams, and troubleshoots bottlenecks in a large-scale Java environment.
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Performance Engineer
IRI believes in commitment, integrity and strategic workforce solutions.
Integrated Resources, Inc., is led by a seasoned team with combined decades in the industry. We deliver strategic workforce solutions that help you manage your talent and business more efficiently and effectively. Since launching in 1996, IRI has attracted, assembled and retained key employees who are experts in their fields. This has helped us expand into new sectors and steadily grow.
We’ve stayed true to our focus of finding qualified and experienced professionals in our specialty areas. Our partner-employers know that they can rely on us to find the right match between their needs and the abilities of our top-tier candidates. By continually exceeding their expectations, we have built successful ongoing partnerships that help us stay true to our commitments of performance and integrity.
Our team works hard to deliver a tailored approach for each and every client, critical in matching the right employers with the right candidates. We forge partnerships that are meant for the long term and align skills and cultures. At IRI, we know that our success is directly tied to our clients’ success.
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
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