Join the San Francisco information technology team of the global leader in predictive information management and analysis software.  Your contribution will perfect the delivery of search-powered business applications that transform the way enterprises, government entities and law firms conduct discovery, enterprise search, and information governance.

We are currently accepting candidates for two open positions: Senior Performance Engineer and Performance Engineer.  The outline of the Senior Performance Engineer follows.

Senior Performance Engineer 
 
Responsibilities:
 
Perform performance profiling and optimization on information management applications for OnDemand (SAAS) Service. Work with the Operations and Engineering teams to make changes to improve service availability, performance and scalability in the application, systems or database layers.
 
Establish capacity planning framework. Monitor and trend key metrics to identify potential performance problems. Establish baselines for various workloads. Determine maximum capacity for production environment.
 
Identify performance bottlenecks and implement solutions to eliminate them. Code and test software changes to improve performance. Determine hardware/software configurations for optimal performance.
 
Build tools and infrastructure to support performance work. Develop, automate, and execute performance suites and analyze results to evaluate product performance.
 
Investigate, troubleshoot and fix application database, and/or systems performance problems
 
Requirements
 
3-5 years experience in performance profiling and optimization
 
7 years software development experience with Java, preferably on search-related applications
 
5 years experience developing and implementing high-performance and high-availability applications
 
3 years experience with application, system and database performance tuning.
 
3 years experience with capacity planning.
 
Experience with Java profiling tools (JConsole, VisualVM, YourKit,  logging and monitoring tools (Log4j, JMX) synthetic load generation tools (JMeter, Selenium)
 
Experience with Java stack tuning and debugging including garbage collection, core dump analysis, contention/concurrency and other bottleneck measurement, analysis and tuning.
 
Proficiency with JVM internals as they relate to performance tuning and memory management.
 
Experience with Windows Performance Counters & Monitoring/Profiling tools like PerfMon and XPerf or their Unix equivalents
 
Working knowledge of XML
 
Experience with virtualization technologies
 
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new applications
 
Strong Problem-Solver/Trouble-Shooter

Methodical, Systematic, Thorough

Good Communication Skills

For more information and an immediate response, please forward your resume to Nicole Foster:  nfoster@at-tech.com or call Nicole at:  925.588.0150.

Thank you for your interest.