Performance Engineer

As Performance Engineer, you will work on one of the world's largest social media platforms which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily.
You will contribute as part of R&D self-organized team working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client.
Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using cutting edge technologies, including building/enhancing Data processing platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, approves them with all stakeholders.
• Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
• Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
• Build, develop, and mature profiling and optimization capabilities , ensuring that Organization Infrastructure maximizes value and reduces inefficiencies and overhead
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, SRE and Product teams to embed profiling capabilities
• Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
• Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products.
• Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
• Reports about area readiness/quality, and raise red flags in crisis situations which are beyond his/her AOR.
• Responsible for resolving crisis situations within his/her AOR.
• Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
• Suggests technical and functional improvements to add value to the product.
• Constantly improves his/her professional level.
• Collaborates with other teams.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Must have:
• 5+ years of experience as a Performance Engineer with proficiency in software development languages such as Python, C++, and Java.
• Expertise in using tools and techniques to analyze and optimize the performance of software applications. Tools include Perf, PyPerf, Gprofiler, Java Async Profiler, Dynalog, etc.
• Strong background in performance engineering, with the ability to debug performance issues and provide optimization recommendations.
• Understanding of system performance tools, libraries, and related issues.
• Knowledge of queueing services like SQS/Kafka and time-series databases like Clickhouse.
• Ability to organize and document solutions effectively.
• Passion for streamlining systems and processes to simplify complex tasks.
• Strong object-oriented programming (OOP) skills.
• Effective communication (oral and written), collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Result-oriented approach