Principal Software Engineer – Test

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Performance testing platforms: Conduct performance and scalability evaluations of both new and advanced cross-platform features in C++/Rust across various environments including Linux/UNIX/Mac OSX/Windows.

• Performance analysis: Detect and assess performance challenges and bottlenecks throughout system layers, from applications and databases to infrastructure and networking.

• Solution development: Create software or automation strategies to resolve performance issues and enhance system efficiency.

• Performance testing: Design, script, execute, and evaluate performance tests to replicate various load scenarios and verify non-functional requirements.

• Collaboration: Partner closely with development, infrastructure, and product teams to establish performance objectives and implement enhancements.

• Monitoring: Oversee systems post-deployment to ensure sustained performance and compliance with Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Optimization: Drive architectural and design decisions to prioritize essential performance targets, such as latency and throughput.

• Customer Support: Simulate, replicate, and troubleshoot production performance challenges.

• Performance Lab Support: Maintain data center hardware and perform software upgrades.

⛳️ Requirements

• Technical skills: Proficiency in scripting, performance testing tools, code profiling, and a solid understanding of various technologies, including databases, APIs, and infrastructure.

• Problem-solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities to address intricate performance issues.

• AI-first mindset and demonstrated expertise in leveraging AI for testing.

• Domain knowledge: Familiarity with the business domain to effectively engage with stakeholders and developers.

• Expertise in cross-platform operating systems (Linux/UNIX/Mac OSX/Windows), filesystems, databases, and networking.

• Software knowledge: Experience with C/C++, exposure to Perl and Rust; familiarity with Linux OS, JMeter, BlazeMeter; and system tools such as strace, lsof, netstat, vmstat, and graphing tools.

• 10+ years of industry-level software performance engineering experience.

• 10+ years of experience in high-level programming languages, with a preference for C++/Rust.

• Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is generally required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Retirement benefits

• Life insurance

• Wellness programs

• Total time off

• Other employee perks