Software Performance Engineer
Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyber attacks. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate analysis and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has intelligent agents that work actively inside applications to prevent data breaches, defeat hackers and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.
Members of our Performance Engineering team believe in continuous measurement to drive product improvements and code optimizations. You would rather spend your time enabling engineering teams to more effectively understand the performance impact of their code. You thrive in an environment where there is something new to learn with each major effort.
Responsibilities
- Focus on constant improvement of uptime and page speed
- Perform automated and ad-hoc analysis on usage patterns, data growth, and application change to prevent performance bottlenecks
- Design, build, and configure environments and services at AWS
- Partner to improve operational efficiency through automation, visibility, and transparency of performance and reliability metrics.
About You
- You love to make web applications faster and efficient.
- History of working with Performance testing and monitoring tools
- You love to break things, and you like to share how you did it.
- You’re a storyteller with compelling stories about that time you learned something new in order to solve a problem for your company, and stories about the times you helped your team mates skill up.
- You have powerful stories about the failures and mistakes you’ve made and the lessons learned. You share them as cautionary tales with your team mates.
- You can demonstrate familiarity with common language frameworks. Java is preferred to start, but .NET, Ruby, Go, Python and Javascript are also key to our product offering.
- You approach problems from a product perspective, thinking through how the user will interact with what you're building.
- You have strong communication skills. You ask questions, let others know when you need help, and tell others what you need. You write things down so someone else on your team can do them.
- You're a problem solver. You believe the best work is the result of finding the simplest solution to complex challenges. We see simplicity as the greatest expression of intelligence and responsibility.
- You see the big picture. You understand how the code you write interacts with systems and services, both internally and externally.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
- Background developing applications using Java, Tomcat, and MySQL
- Understanding of data modeling for relation and non-relational persistence
Bonus Points
- Distributed Queues
- Service Discovery
- Caching Design
- Advanced Knowledge of AWS Features and Services
- Spring and Hibernate Excellence
- Knowledge of database fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals (MySQL)
- JVM and garbage collector tuning, heap dump analysis experience
- Experience with the following performance tools: JMeter, YourKit, New Relic, SumoLogic
- Experience in using UI profilers and deep understanding of Chrome developer tools
- Understanding of how a browser works (Chrome Devtools, UI Automator)
What We Offer
- The opportunity to work with some of the highest performing individuals in the world with the goal of establishing memories of the best part of your career ever.
- Competitive compensation
- Daily in-office team lunches
- Meaningful stock plans
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible paid time off
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