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Fuad Mak
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#JOB: Performance Engineer in San Mateo, CA About You For you, there is nothing like the satisfaction of seeing a huge cluster of servers churning through massive amounts of data quickly and efficiently. Our Big Data Analytics software is the perfect playground for you to learn about, measure, and have an impact on the performance of large scale, distributed systems. You love measuring performance, looking for anomalies and finding where the system breaks down. You have a thorough understanding of distributed systems, clustered servers, and query processing: You have mastered best practices in the black arts of performance measurement including tuning, modeling workloads, lab configurations, and automated nightly runs. You love the aha! moment when you figure out what went wrong or how to speed things up. The Role Performance is critical to our success. As a Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the charge in the never-ending pursuit of faster and faster data analysis against ever-growing volumes of data. Youll utilize your broad skill set to perform many functions, including setting up performance test scenarios, cataloging results, finding problems, and proposing solutions. You will be immersed in many technologies, including Spark, Hadoop, MPP in-memory databases, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant architectures. You will work with development teams that are designing/architecting our platform to generate workloads and tools to understand and characterize system performance and scalability. You must understand system architectures, isolate and pinpoint problem areas, and develop test plans that span various software tiers. You will work with the engineering team, customer support, and field engineers to find and analyze performance bottlenecks and initiate improvements in architecture and underlying code.Your responsibilities will also include leading the development of automated performance tests, analyzing the results and ensuring that our releases meet the target goals for performance. You will work with engineering to develop knowledgebase articles that our field and customers can use to optimize the performance of companys systems. Requirements Deep industry experience in database performance analysis/benchmarking Good knowledge of database systems and query execution methods A distinguished track record of delivering on technically demanding projects Ability to find root cause of performance bottlenecks Skilled with object-oriented scripting language such as python or ruby Comfortable in a Linux environment Ability to identify potential limitations in software architectures Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills Desired Skills: Experience with distributed systems Experience using Big Data technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem Experience with Spark Deep knowledge of Java and its internals (e.g. JVM performance tuning) Familiar with SQL query plan analysis/tuning, contention/locking analysis and tuning Experience with agile development methodology java, sql, hadoop, distributed systems Please submit you resume on our job portal by following this link, http://careers.renttesters.com/view/position/529148 for immediate consideration! ****************************** DIRECT APPLY http://careers.renttesters.com/view/position/529148 ******************************