Infrastructure Performance Engineer

TL;DR

Infrastructure Performance Engineer: Building and optimizing performance across the fleet and throughout the backend stack with an accent on analyzing, scoping, and delivering performance improvements for infrastructure systems like K8s, Observability, Data pipelines, and ML infrastructure. Focus on deep software tuning, continuous load testing, and modernizing the software stack to minimize latency and operational costs.

Location: Remote (US). You must live in a state where hirify.global, Inc. has a registered entity.

Salary: $1—$1 USD

Company

hirify.global is a platform connecting hosts and guests, enabling unique stays and experiences worldwide.

What you will do

• Optimize infrastructure performance and operating costs in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Profile, analyze, and tune large services to optimize their performance.
• Build distributed performance tooling and develop automation to surface performance bottlenecks.
• Lead continuous load testing in production to determine performance bottlenecks and vulnerabilities.
• Work on production performance issues to minimize latency for customers.
• Modernize hirify.global’s software stack, touching every layer.
• Build infrastructure to deploy the latest hardware to AWS Kubernetes clusters to minimize their footprint.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
• Deep software tuning and optimization experience, Java preferred (C++ acceptable).
• Expertise in using metrics to uncover performance issues.
• Familiarity with system hardware as it pertains to performance.
• Familiarity with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving and solid performance debugging skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to inclusion and belonging, fostering diverse ideas and attracting creatively-led people.
• Disability-inclusive application and interview process with reasonable accommodation available.
• Role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.