ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. · 2 weeks ago
System Performance Engineer - Lead SE : Mastercard
St. Louis, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/StaffShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is a company focused on leveraging technology for performance engineering. They are seeking a System Performance Engineer who will identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and cloud environments, with responsibilities including defining service-level objectives and conducting root-cause analysis for performance incidents.
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 background like brokerage trading services, payment services, gaming, large scale online retail
Ability to troubleshoot across entire application and technology stack in a cloud environment
Capability to diagnose root cause problems and determine a path for resolution
Knowledge of Spring Boot
Experience with high-scale, multi-region, and high-transaction platforms 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
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
Preferred
Experience with container orchestration (PCF, Kubernetes, ECS)
Knowledge of networking concepts (Service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configs)
Experience with storage performance (Latency, IOPS constraints, distributed file system behavior)
Familiarity with caching and middleware technologies (Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience with database performance tuning (Connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag)
Knowledge of AWS compute/storage/network performance
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