ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 2 days 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 a strong background in application and system performance. The role involves identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across distributed systems in a cloud environment, requiring expertise in various technologies and performance analysis techniques.
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 the entire application and technology stack in a cloud environment
Capability to diagnose root cause problems and determine paths for resolution
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) running in a Cloud environment
Ability to define service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services
Experience in architecting and championing comprehensive distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.)
Ability to 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
Experience in reviewing service and system architectures for performance risks
Ability to conduct and lead root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments
Experience in 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, GC optimization
Knowledge in container runtime technologies such as PCF, Docker, container resource limits, CPU throttling, memory pressure
Knowledge in orchestrators such as PCF, Kubernetes, ECS
Knowledge in networking concepts including service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configs (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), service mesh performance
Knowledge in storage performance including latency, IOPS constraints, distributed file system behavior
Knowledge in caching & middleware technologies such as Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ configuration and throughput tuning
Knowledge in databases including connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag
Knowledge in cloud layer performance including 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