Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer

What are we looking for in our Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer?

The Information Technology team at Russell Tobin & Associates is supporting a top technology organization that has an opening for a Senior HW/SW Performance Engineer.

Location: Seattle, WA or Sunnyvale CA (preferred) - Hybrid 50% a month
Type: 12 months contract (possibility of extension)
Pay Range: $65/h - $80/h, depending upon experience

Description:

Client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Engineer to join our team in Seattle, WA or Sunnyvale, CA. This role sits at the crucial intersection of hardware and software, focusing on characterizing and optimizing application performance across our diverse and multi cloud infrastructure. You will be instrumental in assessing and integrating new cloud shapes and silicon technologies that power business critical applications and platforms. This position offers a highly empowering work environment where your contributions will directly impact our operational success and enhance user experiences, aligning with our core values of ambition, care, safety, and diversity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Performance Leadership: Drive the assessment, benchmarking, profiling, debugging and integration of new server systems and architectures that support diverse application stack.
• Analyze application performance across various hardware components (CPUs, GPUs, storage and memory subsystems) in both virtual machines and bare metal in order to optimize for cost, performance and utilization.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as a central figure in aligning teams from different technical backgrounds—The cloud shape benchmarking, storage platform, and service teams—to drive comprehensive solutions to performance challenges.
• Advanced Troubleshooting and Optimization: Leverage your deep knowledge of the most effective tools and processes to drive deep and effective performance debugging.
• Propose and implement optimizations that enhance both hardware utilization and software performance.
• Technical Recommendations and Implementations: Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies that can improve performance benchmarking velocity and effectiveness.
• Develop and adjust benchmarking suites and methodologies for various software technologies such as Java, Golang, open-source database, Apache Kafka, and machine learning applications.
• Work with the benchmarking team to incorporate both stand-alone, and production resource sharing benchmarks into internal benchmark framework.
• Knowledge Sharing and Best Practices: Serve as a knowledge leader, sharing insights and best practices for system and workload profiling, debugging and telemetry collection.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven Experience: 8+ years in performance engineering, including direct hands-on experience with server systems and an understanding of CPU microarchitecture, storage, memory, and GPU technologies.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in performance benchmarking and optimization, with solid experience using tools such as flamegraph, Linux perf, eBPF, and synthetic benchmarking suites like specCPU2017, specJBB, MLperf.
• Additional expertise in application specific benchmarks for databases, event streaming, Golang, etc would be beneficial.
• Software and Systems Knowledge: Strong background in software engineering, with at least 5 years of experience.
• Deep understanding of Linux kernel, compilers, middleware technologies (Java, Golang, TensorFlow, PyTorch), and container environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead and integrate efforts across multiple teams.
• Autonomy: Capable of working independently with a high degree of autonomy to make informed decisions and drive necessary changes.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors. 

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Rate/Salary: $65/h - $80/h, depending upon experience