Java Performance Engineer — SLOs, Tuning & Production

Programmers.io; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a strong Java development candidate with testing experience to lead performance initiatives in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on performance testing, tuning, and defining SLOs, budgets, and latency/throughput targets to ensure production systems meet reliability goals.

Candidates should excel in root cause analysis, production optimization, and capacity planning across cloud platforms, using Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray for observability and tuning.

Qualifications

• Performance testing and tuning expertise.
• Experience defining SLOs, performance budgets, latency/throughput targets.
• Root cause analysis and performance optimization in production environments.
• Capacity planning and performance baselining across cloud platforms.

Skills

Performance testing

SLOs and budgets

Root cause analysis

Production optimization

Tools

Spring Boot

JVM tuning

GC optimization

Heap analysis

Thread analysis

Dynatrace

AWS X-Ray

Database performance tuning

Connection pools

Job description

Programmers.io is seeking a strong Java development candidate with testing experience to lead performance initiatives in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on performance testing, tuning, and defining SLOs, budgets, and latency/throughput targets to ensure production systems meet reliability goals.

Candidates should excel in root cause analysis, production optimization, and capacity planning across cloud platforms, using Dynatrace and AWS X-Ray for observability and tuning.