About the position
As part of our rapid growth we are looking for a Stability & Performance Engineer to join our team! At Axonius, we're passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our performance and stability engineers to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand our customer deployments, we are currently seeking experienced stability and performance engineers to deliver insights from massive scale data in real time. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.
Responsibilities
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
- Build infrastructure and systems for monitoring and analyzing complex issues
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
- Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
- Programming experience for at least 5 years (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
- Proven experience working with Linux
- Research skills and ability to understand complex issues
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
- Ability to come into the NYC office at least 1 day a week
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with monitoring and related technologies - Grafana, Prometheus, APM
- Proven knowledge of Mongo internals
- Past experience working with Redis and Celery
Benefits
- Remote-first culture
- Great people and supportive environment
- Focus on career growth with ongoing opportunities
- 100% coverage of 2 different tiers of employee healthcare premiums
- Dental, vision, and 401k match
- 17 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Corporate social responsibility partnerships and volunteer time off
- Market rate salaries, bonuses, or commissions
- Stock options for all full time employees with equity refresh opportunities
- Highly supported Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and DEI initiatives
