Job Description

• Job Duties:
  
  • Own end-to-end performance tools with a shift-left attitude through design, launch, and operation: Support architecture design, influence requirements, and help support new product launch.
  
  • Tackle performance issues for cutting edge technologies. Analyze and debug difficult server-side performance issues, identify bottlenecks and optimize product/service performance to improve overall experience.
  
  • Work collaboratively with a large group of engineers from all disciplines within Engineering to improve code base performance (e.g. algorithm redesign), reduce resource consumption and shorten request latency and present findings to a group with a varying degree of technical as well as business experience.
  
  • Work on a platform that provides deep visibility to what is going on for an ecommerce site: Profiling to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers.
  
  • Effectively collaborate and communicate for better performance governance across all teams in Walmart. Present performance-related findings to various teams.
  
  Required Qualifications:
  
  • BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research or other technical field.
  • Strong experience in Python or Java

  • Strong experience in Kubernetes with sidecar implementations

  • Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud-like environments - preferred experience in Azure or GCP.
  
  • Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.
  
  • Ability to successfully lead multiple projects while remaining highly technical.
  
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).