Senior Performance Engineer: JVM & Observability

Appian; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision plans

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Wellness programs

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings account contributions

Employee referral bonus program

Learning and development resources

Job summary

Appian is seeking a performance-focused Mid to Senior Software Engineer to build tools that tackle complex performance problems and high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems. You’ll join a team that values intensity and excellence as we push for scalable software solutions.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of experience, deep JVM and Linux knowledge, and experience with Java and Python, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and delivering software applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems in a small scrum team.
• Leverage Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Grafana, ElasticSearch, and Kubernetes to ensure platform performance.
• Assist with customer performance issue investigations and remediation.
• Build custom performance tooling to aid in solving performance issues.
• Enable automated performance testing through libraries, frameworks and infrastructure.
• Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and automation to prevent recurrence.

Skills

4+ years experience

JVM fundamentals

Linux fundamentals

Java

Python

CI/CD

Monitoring/Observability

Production issue debugging

BS in Computer Science

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Gitlab

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Locust

Job description

Appian is seeking a performance-focused Mid to Senior Software Engineer to build tools that tackle complex performance problems and high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems. You’ll join a team that values intensity and excellence as we push for scalable software solutions.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of experience, deep JVM and Linux knowledge, and experience with Java and Python, CI/CD, and observability tooling.