Lead Performance Engineer - Cloud & Distributed Systems

Apexon; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Apexon is looking for a candidate in St. Louis or those willing to relocate, to join as a performance engineer. You will lead efforts in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across distributed systems while evaluating the Transaction system.

Key responsibilities include defining SLOs, analyzing application behavior, and reviewing architectures for performance risks, with a focus on cloud environments and high-scale platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with high-scale, multi-region, high-transaction platforms in cloud environments.
• Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems and applications.
• Familiarity with performance metrics, budgets, and latency targets.

Responsibilities

• Define and analyze service-level objectives and performance budgets.
• Review architectures for performance risks and conduct root-cause analyses.
• Develop capacity models and performance baselines across cloud environments.

Skills

Performance engineering

Cloud environments

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Root-cause analysis

Container orchestration

Database tuning

Tools

Dynatrace

AWS X-Ray

Docker

Job description

Apexon is looking for a candidate in St. Louis or those willing to relocate, to join as a performance engineer. You will lead efforts in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across distributed systems while evaluating the Transaction system.

Key responsibilities include defining SLOs, analyzing application behavior, and reviewing architectures for performance risks, with a focus on cloud environments and high-scale platforms.