ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 1 week ago
System Performance Engineer - Lead SE : Mastercard
St. Louis, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/StaffShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is looking for a Lead System Performance Engineer to blend application performance, system performance, and cloud engineering expertise. The role involves troubleshooting performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and ensuring optimal performance in a cloud environment, particularly for high-volume transaction platforms.
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
Experience identifying and resolving end-to-end performance bottlenecks across distributed systems, Spring Boot services, middleware components, and hybrid cloud environments
Ability to analyze container orchestration, networking paths, and system interactions under load
Experience with defining service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services
Experience architecting and implementing distributed tracing strategies (e.g., Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray)
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 reviewing service and system architectures for performance risks
Experience conducting and leading root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments
Experience developing capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments
Knowledge in application layer technologies such as Spring Boot internals, JVM tuning, thread/heap management, concurrency debugging, and GC optimization
Knowledge in container runtime technologies such as PCF and Docker
Knowledge in orchestrators such as PCF, Kubernetes, and ECS
Knowledge in networking concepts including service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, and load balancer configurations
Knowledge in storage performance including latency and IOPS constraints
Knowledge in caching and middleware technologies such as Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, and RabbitMQ
Knowledge in database performance tuning including connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, and replication lag
Knowledge in cloud performance including AWS compute/storage/network performance and regional latency
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