Performance Engineer

| Northwest Suburbs
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The Performance Engineer specializing in web application performance will have a significant impact on product development. This individual will help ensure that our HCM platform is performant and scalable, and provide tools and guidance for developers to do so on their own features.

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

Who you are:

  • At ease working at all levels of the organization
  • Relentlessly curious about current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly
  • Passionate about automation
  • A superior communicator with a penchant for quality
  • Unflinching in your desire for production stability and client satisfaction
  • A natural problem solver that can quickly troubleshoot remediate application or environment issues
  • Able to work with both software development and operations
  • Able to coordinate and implement new applications
  • Able to balance long term projects with daily duties

How we work:

  • Small, self-sufficient product-oriented teams with an entrepreneurial spirit organized into categories
  • Dedicated Tech Operations experts committed to cutting-edge infrastructure and developer tools
  • We don’t add more folks to our teams, we add additional teams to scale
  • Casual, collaborative, agile environment which embraces and operates under our shared principles
  • Complete transparency with open, honest discussions about our progress
  • Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and product teams

What we offer:

  • Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our product teams in the best position to succeed
  • A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them the chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity
  • A subscription to an Online Training Forum for all technology colleagues

What you bring:

  • Demonstrated understanding of the HTTP protocol, web applications with ability to pinpoint performance risks by interpreting output (e.g., network latency graphs, stack trace profiles)
  • Previous experience (ideally 5+ yrs) implementing and maintaining performance testing suites using tools (e.g. Microsoft Load and Performance Testing Framework) and providing analysis of the results
  • Experience with real-time site evaluation tools (e.g. AppDynamics)
  • Must understand DB bottlenecks and caching infrastructures
  • Experience working in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum development shop
  • Commitment to documentation best practices so your code can be consumed in an open source environment
  • Experience working in a .net environment

During the last three months, you would have:

  • Gained real-world experience developing in C#
  • Increased experience with continuous integration systems (e.g., Jenkins, TravisCI) and automated provisioning tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
  • Demonstrated full stack performance engineering capabilities, ranging from instrumenting front-end (e.g. JavaScript) to back-end
  • Contributed to or consumed Open Source Frameworks
  • Solidified understanding of content delivery on a global scale, its challenges and how to solve them
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Our office has modern workspaces, a cafe, and a gym. But since we're a talent-anywhere company, you may find our team members all over Chicagoland.

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