Veridic Solutions · 2 days ago
Systems Performance Engineer – Lead SE
O’Fallon, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffVeridic Solutions is seeking a Lead Systems Performance Engineer to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and hybrid cloud environments. The role involves analyzing system interactions under load, mapping workflows, and ensuring components meet their service-level objectives.
Cloud ComputingConsultingInformation Technology
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
Extensive 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
Veridic Solutions
Veridic Solutions provides consulting and IT services to clients globally.
Founded in 2016
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Housatonic Partners
2021-09-22Private Equity
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2023-09-27
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