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Performance and Capacity Engineer Responsibilities

• Work with Product Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, and Data Engineering team to find optimal way to scale web infrastructure.


• Own end-to-end product design, launch, and operation.


• Support architecture design, define networking requirements, and help build code from scratch to support new product launches.


• Tackle the state-of-the-art hardware performance issues.


• Analyze and debug difficult server performance issues (latest in industry), identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve user experience.


• Work with software developers closely to improve code base performance using algorithm redesign, reduce resource consumption, and shorten request latency.


• Own and drive overall web capacity planning work for all different products/services and recommend data center (DC) expansion plan.


• Create monitoring, reporting, and data-mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.


• Run capacity and performance experiments to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.


• Present performance and capacity roadmap for critical project and cost analyses in presentation and form monthly to executive teams.


• Identify capacity-related issues proactively and work with systems, network, application operations and engineering teams to discover resolutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires Master's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical field. Requires completion of one graduate-level course, one research project, or one internship involving the following skills:


• 1. Coding and scripting in C++, Python, PHP or Java


• 2. Programming with Relational Databases and SQL, utilizing Code Editors, and revision control systems


• 3. Improving code base performance using algorithm design


• 4. Analyzing and debugging server performance issues


• 5. Designing large scale systems with established tolerance, consistency, and availability guarantees


• 6. Creating monitoring/reporting/data mining tools to do performance and capacity-related tests and analysis.

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