Senior Performance Engineer
 
U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. No Corp to Corp.
 
This role is on-site in NYC
Please apply to: Colin Reposa at creposa@syrinx.com
Description:
• Looking for candidate who has excellent skills in performance engineering concepts. Must be able to lead performance engineering projects effectively.
 
Required Skills:
• B.S. Degree, Computer Science, Minimum 8 years of work experience primarily in Development & performance engineering.
• Experience working with teams effectively in a globally distributed environment.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment / methodology.
• Development skills in php, nodejs, go, java/J2EE frameworks required, 2 years preferred.
• Experience in profiling large scale distributed systems.
• Good knowledge of Aurora RDS MySQL, Elastic Memcached, SQS, Elastic Search, Kinesis concepts.
• Familiarity with basic performance monitoring and troubleshooting on AWS, Docker and kubernetes.
• Experience in debugging issues in large scale virtual environment.
• Experience with Application Performance Management tools (New Relic, Sumo Logic, Gomez, datadog).
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and processes for quality assurance guidelines.
• Knowledge of quality philosophies, principles, methods, tools and standards of software development and testing (software estimation techniques, risk assessment and management, configuration management and change control, software tracking constructs).
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and technologies (HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, etc.).
• Knowledge of WAN Emulation Tools (plus).
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux performance monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of Internet and enterprise software technologies including web and application servers.