Senior Software Engineer Performance Engineer

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we love celebrating our wins big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

The Role

The Core Performance engineering team is looking for aseniorsoftware engineer to build andmaintainperformance tests and performance test frameworks that underpin our performance work at Anaplan as well as advocate for strong software engineering principles for performant software. Performance is at the heart of everything we do at Anaplan so we need someone who loves performance as well as advocating for the performance of the platform.

Who are you

• A Strong Engineer:Youvecontributed to andimpactedlarge codebases before andhavedeepprinciples of software engineering

• Accountable and self-directed: You hold yourself to a high standard work independently and take responsibility for outcomes.

• Ownership mindset: You see problems through to resolution and treat platform performance as your responsibility.

• Scale-oriented thinking: You look beyond individual fixes create solutions that work across teams and enable adoption through influence rather than mandate.

• Bias toward automation: You activelyseektoeliminaterepetitive work through automation and build durable solutions rather than manual processes.

• Data first: You are data-first opinion second: you care about the quality of data provided for any decision and you hold yourself to the highest standards of data quality

• You care about quality:Yourean advocate for quality in everything you do and review code with quality in mind as well as advocate for performance of the platform

• You get stuck in quickly: Anaplan moves fast and you move faster to keep up withwhatsgoing on and how you can get involved

• Strong Convictions held loosely: You advocate and are passionate but are completely open to other voices and opinions

Your qualifications

Core Engineering Experience

• Deep software engineering experience(7 years)designing andoperatinglarge-scale complex systems in production environments

• Proven ability to architect and evolve high-performance systems through sound engineering practices architectural leadership and data-driven decision making

• Strongtrack recordof delivering owning and continuously improving production systems with a focus on reliability scalability and operational excellence

• Strong understanding of infrastructure across both cloud andon-premiseenvironments including machine types resource allocation and infrastructure bottlenecks

• Experience working within Kubernetes environments; hands-on experience debugging scaling or performance testing Kubernetes-based systems is highly valuable

• Experience working with infrastructure as code and ephemeral environments to enable reliable and repeatable system testing

• Expertisediagnosing complex performance issues in distributed systems and leading cross-team efforts to resolve systemic bottlenecks

• Experience working with high-performance data infrastructure such as Redis or similar in-memory data systems

Performance Engineering

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing performance testing strategies across multiple system layers

• Strong experience setting upmaintaining and evolving automated performance tests as part of CI/CD pipelines

• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools and frameworks including building andmaintainingtest suites

• Deep understanding of system-level performance characteristics across application infrastructure database and network layers

• A code-first automation-driven approach to performance engineering emphasizing scalable and repeatable validation of system performance

• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance issues in production systems using observability tooling and telemetry

• Ability to influence architectural decisions andestablishperformance standards across engineering teams

TechWe Use

Our performance engineering work spans application code infrastructure CI pipelines and observability tooling. Experience with the following technologies is helpful:

Languages and scripting

• Java (many of our performance tests are written in Java and compiled intojMetertests)

• Groovy

• Python

Performance testing

• jMeter

• BlazeMeter

CI/CD and automation

• Jenkins (used heavily for our performance pipelines)

• CI tooling and pipeline automation integrated with core product delivery

Infrastructure and environments

• Kubernetes

• Cloud andon-premiseinfrastructure environments

• Infrastructure as code

• Ephemeral testing environments

Observability and analysis

• Grafana for performance observability both for internal tests and production environments

Domain tools

• Anaplan (model building and platform interaction)

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusionand Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce enhances trust with our partners and customers and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity equity inclusion and belonging arent just words on paper this is what drives our innovation its how we connect and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued regardless of gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion ethnicity age neurodiversity disability status citizenship or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

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