Senior Mainframe Engineer - AI-Driven Observability

Dynatrace; United States; On-site; USD 161,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

STD

LTD

401K

PTO

Job summary

Dynatrace is redefining mainframe observability by bringing AI-driven insights to z/OS, CICS and HLASM. We’re looking for engineers who understand systems at the instruction level and who care about performance, dumps, and traces.

You’ll build instrumentation inside CICS and z/OS, push HLASM limits, and design features used by the world’s largest enterprises. Join a small, elite team focused on deep expertise over process.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of real-world HLASM experience.
• Deep expertise in z/OS internals, CICS internals, systems programming and runtime behavior.
• Strong hands-on experience with CICS.
• Daily proficiency with JCL, SDSF, and USS.
• Proven ability to analyze dumps, traces, and performance bottlenecks.
• Working knowledge of COBOL, PL/I, or C for testing and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Build low-level, high-performance instrumentation inside CICS and z/OS.
• Push the limits of what’s possible with HLASM.
• Design and ship features used by the largest enterprises on the planet.
• Diagnose complex behavior using dumps, traces, and deep system insight.
• Deliver code that runs in mission-critical environments where overhead is unacceptable.
• Work directly with a small, elite team of highly experienced engineers.

Skills

HLASM

z/OS internals

CICS internals

JCL

SDSF

USS

performance analysis

COBOL/PL/I/C

Tools

DB2

MQ

WebSphere WAS

z/OS Connect

Job description

Dynatrace is redefining mainframe observability by bringing AI-driven insights to z/OS, CICS and HLASM. We’re looking for engineers who understand systems at the instruction level and who care about performance, dumps, and traces.

You’ll build instrumentation inside CICS and z/OS, push HLASM limits, and design features used by the world’s largest enterprises. Join a small, elite team focused on deep expertise over process.