Staff Software Performance Engineer
Company Description
ServiceNow is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We're growing fast, innovating faster, and making an impact on our customers' and employees' lives in significant and important ways. With over 6,900 customers, we serve approximately 80% of the Fortune 500, and we're on the 2020 list of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies.®
We're looking for people who are ready to roll up their sleeves and help us build on our incredible momentum, our diverse, engaged workforce, and our purpose to make the world of work, work better.
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Job Description
What you get to do in this role:
As a Staff Software Engineer – Performance Quality Engineering, you will be a key member of the Application Development team driving the quality of our products and services to the next level. You will work within our agile software development process and have an important impact on the products we built.
The ideal candidate for this position is a someone with a strong background in web application benchmarking and performance analysis. The candidate must have a passion for building and applying tools that measure the characteristics of complex systems running under dynamic, real-world loads. You will work in a fast-paced, innovative environment that allows direct influence on the organization and our most important customers.
In this role you will create infrastructure, automation, and performance scripts that drive realistic loads against the key business transactions.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:
- 6+ years of experience in performance testing large scale distributed web applications
- 3+ years of experience working on a SaaS, PaaS, or Cloud Infrastructure product/solution
- Strong experience in JMeter and/or one of the open source applications Gatling/Grinder/Locust/PBench/Siege/ApacheBench/Tsung along with LoadRunner
- Proven experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
- Experience with performance measures for responsiveness, bandwidth, memory, CPU, and accuracy
- Solid understanding and experience with agile software development methodologies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies
- Experience building automation and performance testing frameworks
- Expertise with Linux, Mac and Windows; experience with terminal commands
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Experience with Jenkins or other CI software • Experience with Git or other source control tools and good understanding of Version control, merging, branching.
- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science with solid experience developing and deploying mission critical software
Desired skills:
- 4+ year professional project experience in Java Coding with Selenium
- Shell scripting and/or Python scripting
- Strong experience with MySQL or Oracle databases
- Understanding of schemas, table spaces, indexing, and database performance optimization
- Experience in data coloration and analytics to determine bottlenecks and performance issues.
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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