Principal Application Performance Engineer

Arm Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company based in the UK is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join their performance analysis toolkit team. This role focuses on optimizing software and cloud systems and driving user insights through performance analysis. The ideal candidate will have a robust expertise in performance issues, cloud environments, and provide technical leadership in collaboration with engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience resolving performance issues in server/cloud contexts.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and monitoring tools.
• Proficient in C++ and Python, with a passion for knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Ensure performance tools provide automated insights for performance issues.
• Drive user impact by providing technical insights in tooling.
• Craft examples and tests for end-to-end application performance issues.

Skills

Performance optimization

Technical knowledge sharing

Problem solving

Cloud performance

Tools

VTune

New Relic

Datadog

AppDynamics

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Job Overview:

We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer who thrives on taking on performance bottlenecks and optimising software and cloud-based systems. If you're someone who loves challenging performance issues, using groundbreaking tools, and enjoys sharing your knowledge we want you on our team!

Would you like to join our growing team in the UK and USA that are building a developer friendly and extensible performance analysis toolkit and help our users solve their performance bottlenecks?

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for ensuring our performance tools provide the automated insights to solve performance issues. Establish the 'what do I do next' insights for performance workflows.
• Grow into a go-to expert on performance workflows on Arm Neoverse platforms, driving user impact by bringing technical insights from across the organization to life in tooling.
• Work with product, UX (user experience) and engineering to help specify and test required features in the tool.
• Craft end to end application performance issues as demonstrable examples and tests.
• Build online support documentation and code examples for developers debugging performance problems through our learning paths.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience identifying and resolving performance issues in server and cloud contexts with a deep understanding of computer architecture.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and monitoring tools (e.g., VTune, New Relic, Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus).
• A passion and history of writing and sharing technical knowledge.
• Proficient in both high and low level programming preferably with C++ and Python.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Applicable knowledge of the Arm architecture and how it differs from x86.
• Technical leadership roles and responsibilities.

In Return:

You’ll get the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of compute and performance analysis, solving meaningful challenges that impact developers across the world. You’ll collaborate with a team of passionate engineers and have real influence on the direction of our tools and workflows. We also provide a culture that encourages innovation, autonomy, and continuous improvement Whether you're in the UK or USA, you'll be joining a team that values curiosity, creativity, and the relentless pursuit of better performance.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.