Performance Engineer

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality maintainable C code that meets engineering standards

• Ensure stories are completed within the iteration timeline

• Create comprehensive C++ unit tests that prove code changes correctly meet the requirements

• Partner with testers to functional test

• Review other engineer’s code and design to help improve quality

• Complete design detail for stories assigned

• Actively participate in team requirement elaboration sessions

• Work collaboratively and effectively in a fast paced environment

• Design, configure, and execute performance tests

• Work closely with software development teams to identify risks and anticipate problems to ensure that each release does not negatively impact performance

• Improve the current performance environment with your own code, automation, and onboarding of external tools (i.e. Dynatrace and Splunk)

• Drive performance issues to resolution

Skills required:

• Proficient in C/C++

• Proficient in a scripting language (shell script preferred)

• Experience creating unit tests and knowledge of unit testing framework (Junit or Google Test)

• Experience developing on Linux operating systems

• Experience developing in a team environment with a source control tool (Git/Bitbucket preferred)

• Strong critical thinking, attention to detail, and analytical skills

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field