ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 14 hours ago
System Performance Engineer - Lead SE : Mastercard
St. Louis, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/StaffShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is seeking a Lead System Performance Engineer with expertise in application and system performance within cloud environments. The role involves identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across distributed systems, ensuring that services meet their service-level objectives and performance budgets.
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
High-volume transaction background like brokerage trading services, payment services, gaming, large scale online retail (Walmart, Amazon, Netflix)
Ability to troubleshoot across entire application and technology stack in a cloud environment
Capability to go beyond diagnoses of the symptoms to the root cause problem and determine a path for resolution
Knowledge in Spring Boot
Experience with high-scale, multi-region, and high-transaction platforms (e.g., financial systems, payment processing, or large enterprise SaaS) running in a Cloud environment
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
Application Layer: Spring Boot internals, JVM tuning, thread/heap management, concurrency debugging, GC optimization
Container Runtime: PCF, Docker, container resource limits, CPU throttling, memory pressure
Orchestrators: PCF, Kubernetes, ECS (autoscaling, pod health, scheduling issues)
Networking: Service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configs (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), service mesh performance
Storage: Latency, IOPS constraints, distributed file system behavior
Caching & Middleware: Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ configuration and throughput tuning
Databases: Connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag
Cloud Layer: AWS compute/storage/network performance, regional latency, 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