Principal Application Performance Engineer

Arm; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Application Performance Engineer

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:

1. Accountable for ensuring our performance tools provide the automated insights to solve performance issues.
2. Establish the 'what do I do next' insights for performance workflows.
3. 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.
4. Work with product, UX (user experience) and engineering to help specify and test required features in the tool.
5. Craft end to end application performance issues as demonstrable examples and tests.
6. Build online support documentation and code examples for developers debugging performance problems through our learning paths.

Required Skills and Experience:

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

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

1. Applicable knowledge of the Arm architecture and how it differs from x86.
2. 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.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email accommodationsarm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility.

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.

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.

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About Arm

Arm technology is defining the future of computing. If you have a smartphone, digital camera, gaming console or a car, you’re already using Arm powered technology. Arm technology is transforming the way people live, work, play and learn. Our energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms have enabled advanced computing in 250 billion chips.

Founded by a dozen engineers working from a converted turkey barn in Cambridge 33 years ago, we have grown to over 6000 employees in offices across the globe. Whether you’re a Hardware Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Analyst or searching for a job in Marketing or the People team, you’ll fit right in at Arm.

We love our jobs at Arm because our technology touches 70% of the world’s population and we have a chance to change the world. The future is being built on Arm. Come join us!

Diversity & Inclusion
"Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. So, we are intentionally focused on bringing people into Arm from the broadest talent pool, fostering an inclusive culture where differences are leveraged, and ensuring everyone can thrive in their careers at Arm." - Tamika Curry Smith - Chief Diversity Officer

We all play an important role in co-creating an inclusive environment in which representation matters, people are valued, diverse perspectives are heard, and everyone's skills are fully utilized.

At Arm, we are committed to integrating DEI practices into everything we do to effectively collaborate across teams and regions, innovate our ecosystem partners, and be impactful leaders, managers and individuals.

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