Software Performance Engineer

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Software Performance Engineer

Location: Austin TX (Hybrid 3 days On-Site and 2 days Remote)

Duration: 6-12 Months

Location: Try for Locals

Job Description

Join Honeycomb Platform team to build operate and ensure the unwavering reliability scalability and security of critical backend services. This role demands deep backend development expertise robust DevOps capabilities and a relentless focus on operational excellence to deliver high-performance zero-downtime and inherently secure systems in a demanding production environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Design & Develop Production Systems: Architect and optimize high-throughput zero-downtime microservices (Java SpringBoot Redis MongoDB Kafka) with an inherent focus on scalability security and resilience from design to deployment.

Operational Lifecycle Management: Drive application lifecycle with an emphasis on high availability performance tuning (JVM optimization) security practices and comprehensive testing for production readiness.

Secure Cloud Infrastructure: Implement and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure including EKS Docker and Helm ensuring robust security and compliance standards.

Automated & Secure CI/CD: Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins Maven Git) integrating security gates automated testing and reliable deployment strategies.

Advanced Traffic Management & Security: Configure and optimize Nginx for intelligent load balancing traffic management and DDoS mitigation to ensure performance reliability and protection.

Proactive Monitoring & Incident Response: Leverage Splunk for comprehensive monitoring logging proactive threat detection and real-time operational insights across the system stack.

P1 Debugging & Production Support: Apply expert troubleshooting skills to rapidly diagnose and resolve critical P1 incidents perform root cause analysis and provide ongoing production support including on-call rotations.

Operational Efficiency: Utilize AI tools (RooCode Claude) to enhance development security analysis and operational efficiency.

Security & Compliance: Actively contribute to security reviews vulnerability management and best practices for data protection and access control.

Required Skills & Experience:

5 years of professional Java development experience including 3 years with MongoDB focused on production-grade highly concurrent applications.

Proven expertise in designing developing and operating highly available distributed scalable and secure enterprise systems in production.

Strong command of Spring Boot Redis Kafka and Microservices architecture with an emphasis on resilience and observability.

Extensive experience with AWS deployments EKS cluster management (including security and scaling) Kubernetes Docker and Helm.

Proficiency in CI/CD practices (Jenkins Maven Git) with a focus on security automation and deployment reliability.

Deep understanding of Nginx Load Balancing HTTP specifications CDN and DDoS protection mechanisms.

Expertise in performance tuning (JVM memory profiling) and automated testing frameworks (JUnit TestNG) for production stability.

Familiarity with template-driven rendering client/server MVC architectures and advanced Splunk usage for incident management and operational analytics.

Hands-on experience with AI tools (RooCode Claude) for development and operations.

Solid grasp of SDLC Agile and exceptional troubleshooting skills with a proven track record in P1 incident resolution and post-mortem analysis.

Self-starter with strong leadership proactive problem-solving and excellent communication skills especially during critical incident management.

Skill Sets	Niche Skill	Experience	Preference
Monitoring	No	NA	Is Required
Splunk	No	NA	Is Required
Spring Boot	No	NA	Is Required
Web Application Filrewall (WAF)	No	NA	Is Required
Web Application Security	No	NA	Is Required
AWS	No	NA	Is Required
AWS Security Architect	No	NA	Is Required
Git	No	NA	Is Required
GitHub	No	NA	Is Required
Infrastructure Monitoring/Maintenance	No	NA	Is Required
Infrastructure Support	No	NA	Is Required
Jenkins	No	NA	Is Required
Kafka	No	NA	Is Required
Kafka SRE	No	NA	Is Required
Kubernetes	No	NA	Is Required
Load Balancer	No	NA	Is Required
Maven	No	NA	Is Required
microservices	No	NA	Is Required
MongoDB	No	NA	Is Required
Multi-tenancy	No	NA	Is Required
Multi-threading	No	NA	Is Required
Nginx	No	NA	Is Required
Performance Engineering	No	NA	Is Required

Software Performance Engineer Location: Austin TX (Hybrid 3 days On-Site and 2 days Remote) Duration: 6-12 Months Location: Try for Locals Job Description Join Honeycomb Platform team to build operate and ensure the unwavering reliability scalability and security of critical backend services. This ...