ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. ยท 2 weeks ago
System Performance Engineer - Lead SE : Mastercard
St. Louis, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/StaffShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is a company that specializes in analytics solutions. They are seeking a Lead System Performance Engineer to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and cloud environments, ensuring optimal application performance and system interactions under load.
AnalyticsConsultingInformation Technology
No H1B
Responsibilities
Define service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services
Architect and champion comprehensive distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.)
Analyze application, platform, and cloud behavior using deep-dive techniques such as heap dumps, thread dumps, flame graphs, GC logs, network traces, and storage I/O profiling
Review service and system architectures for performance risks (e.g., synchronous hops, excessive dependencies, misconfigured connection pools, poor cache placement)
Conduct and lead root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments
Develop capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments
Qualification
Required
Experience in high-volume transaction environments such as brokerage trading services, payment services, gaming, or large scale online retail
Ability to troubleshoot across entire application and technology stack in a cloud environment
Experience with Spring Boot
Identifying and resolving end-to-end performance bottlenecks across distributed systems, Spring Boot services, middleware components, and hybrid cloud environments
Defining service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services
Architecting and championing comprehensive distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.)
Analyzing application, platform, and cloud behavior using deep-dive techniques such as heap dumps, thread dumps, flame graphs, GC logs, network traces, and storage I/O profiling
Reviewing service and system architectures for performance risks
Conducting and leading root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments
Developing capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments
Preferred
Experience with container orchestration technologies such as PCF, Kubernetes, ECS
Knowledge of networking concepts including service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configurations (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), and service mesh performance
Experience with caching and middleware technologies such as Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ
Experience with database performance tuning including connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, and replication lag
Experience with AWS compute/storage/network performance and understanding of regional latency and cross-cloud traffic patterns
Company
ShiftCode Analytics, Inc.
ShiftCode Analytics Inc is a Tampa, FL based firm formed with one sole purpose of delivering best and quick services to its clients nationwide.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase