Performance Engineer

St. Louis, MO, US • Posted 11 hours ago • Updated 11 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
Contract Corp To Corp
2 Years
No Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Skills

  • local to MO
  • onsite role from day one

Summary

ONSITE ROLE TO DAY ONE.. SUBMIT ONLY LOCAL TO MO CANDIDATES.

This is performance engineer role with who can do coding on (Java or Spring boot )

Key Responsibilities
Define service-level objectives (SLOs), performance budgets, and latency/throughput targets across services.
Architect and champion comprehensive distributed tracing strategies (Dynatrace, AWS X-Ray, etc.).
Analyze application, platform, and cloud behavior using deep-dive techniques such as heap dumps, thread dumps, flame graphs, logs, network traces, and storage I/O profiling.
Review service and system architectures for performance risks (e.g., synchronous hops, excessive dependencies, misconfigured connection pools, poor cache placement).
Conduct and lead root-cause analysis for performance incidents in production and pre-production environments.
Develop capacity models and performance baselines for services running across cloud environments.

Areas of Expertise
Application Layer: Spring Boot internals, JVM tuning, thread/heap management, concurrency debugging, optimization
Container Runtime: PCF, Docker, container resource limits, CPU throttling, memory pressure
Orchestrators: PCF, Kubernetes, ECS (autoscaling, pod health, scheduling issues)
Networking: Service-to-service hops, TLS overhead, DNS, routing, load balancer configs (F5, Nginx, ALB/NLB), service mesh performance
Storage: Latency, IOPS constraints, distributed file system behavior
Caching & Middleware: Redis, Hazelcast, NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ configuration and throughput tuning
Databases: Connection pool tuning, slow queries, indexing, replication lag
Cloud Layer: AWS compute/storage/network performance, regional latency, cross-cloud traffic patterns

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  • Dice Id: 10451973
  • Position Id: 9021144
  • Posted 11 hours ago
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