ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 19 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 to enhance application and system performance in a cloud environment. The role involves troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and ensuring that services meet their service-level objectives across distributed systems.
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
Knowledge of Spring Boot
Experience with distributed systems, Spring Boot services, middleware components, and hybrid cloud environments (private cloud + AWS)
Experience with high-scale, multi-region, and high-transaction platforms (e.g., financial systems, payment processing, or large enterprise SaaS)
Ability to define service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services
Experience in architecting and implementing distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.)
Ability to analyze application, platform, and cloud behavior using techniques such as heap dumps, thread dumps, flame graphs, GC logs, network traces, and storage I/O profiling
Experience in reviewing service and system architectures for performance risks
Experience in conducting and leading root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments
Ability to develop capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments
Preferred
Experience with PCF, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
Knowledge of service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configurations (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), service mesh performance
Experience with Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ configuration and throughput tuning
Experience with connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag
Knowledge of 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