The
Performance Engineer will be responsible for analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting performance issues in one of the world’s largest social media platforms, handling
petabytes of data daily. The role involves
profiling and optimizing data processing platforms, improving infrastructure efficiency, and collaborating with
Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, and Product teams.
US/Canada Remote PST hours
Open Positions
Key Responsibilities
Performance Optimization & Engineering:
- Develop and enhance profiling and optimization capabilities to maximize infrastructure value.
- Analyze, debug, and optimize software application performance using Perf, PyPerf, Gprofiler, Java Async Profiler, Dynalog, and similar tools.
- Evaluate implemented data systems for performance bottlenecks, discrepancies, and inefficiencies.
- Troubleshoot and optimize data processing pipelines to improve throughput and latency.
- Provide optimization recommendations for improving system efficiency.
Collaboration & System Integration
- Work with Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, and Product teams to embed profiling capabilities into production systems.
- Ensure performance enhancements align with business drivers and analytical use cases.
- Participate in cross-functional teams to improve observability, monitoring, and reporting.
Code Quality & Documentation
- Conduct code reviews, define code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation on solutions, methodologies, and findings.
- Identify and mitigate risks in performance engineering processes.
Required Qualifications
Technical Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a Performance Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, and Java.
- Expertise in performance analysis and optimization tools (Perf, PyPerf, Gprofiler, Java Async Profiler, Dynalog, etc.).
- Understanding of system performance tuning, debugging, and profiling.
- Experience with queueing services like SQS/Kafka and time-series databases like Clickhouse.
- Strong object-oriented programming (OOP) skills.
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Effective oral and written communication.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for streamlining complex processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large, cloud-native multi-tenant platforms at Internet scale.
- Experience with observability build systems, platforms, and tools.
- Hands-on experience working with AWS instances and Kubernetes environments.
Skills Summary
- Core Expertise: Performance engineering, software optimization, profiling tools.
- Technical Skills: Python, C++, Java, Perf, PyPerf, Gprofiler, Java Async Profiler, Dynalog, SQS/Kafka, Clickhouse.
- Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, large-scale cloud-native platforms.
- Soft Skills: Communication, problem-solving, collaboration, documentation.
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $33.75/hour - $52.73/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.
