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Principal Cloud Performance Engineer

Job Category: Product Engineering

Meet Our Team:

As a member of one of the most innovative and fastest growing groups at Pega, you will work closely with talented engineers and product owners across the globe to build a highly scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) offering.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

• Pega is changing the way the world builds software. Our goal is to be the no. 1 CRM SaaS company in the world.

• In this role, you'll help us analyze performance profiles of enterprise software and define performance best practices that power Pega Cloud services.

• Pega is staying on the cutting edge of technology, this is your chance to get your hands on working with leading cloud performance technologies to solve interesting problems.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• Be an integral part of a team that analyzes performance profiles of enterprise software on the Pega Cloud and helps define performance best practices and governance policies.

• Develop tools and practices for infrastructure performance monitoring and resiliency testing.

• Work closely with capacity planning and operations teams to understand their needs and translate them into clearly defined requirements.

• Evaluate new and emerging technologies and determine applicability to current and future projects and markets.

• Provide performance oversight, review, assistance, and guidance to teams while they work on delivering new features.

• Communicate effectively with developers and product owners about performance analysis, presenting alternative approaches and plans when appropriate.

• Work within an Agile framework

Who You Are:

You are a performance engineer having experience in building scalable cloud-native systems and passionate about exploring and applying this to help solve real business problems.

• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably in a product development company.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.

• Be able to implement solutions that meet engineering excellence standards with minimal oversight

• Experience with Agile methodologies such as SCRUM

• Experience deploying software in containers such as Docker

• Experience designing software to scale using containers and services

• Experience with performance analysis on clouds such as AWS, Azure or GCP

• Experience with Database, including both relational (PostgreSQL or Oracle) and NoSQL (Cassandra)

• Experience with applications in clustered deployments and distributed systems

• Experience with SCM including git and GitHub

• Programming language expertise in Java (required), with knowledge of Golang, Pega Platform, or AWS Cloud beneficial

• Experience with J2EE, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform

• Candidate must have good verbal and written communication skills and must be a fast learner.

What You've Accomplished:

• Overall experience of 6+ years in developing and scaling applications, preferably in a product development company.

• Designed and implemented highly available, scalable cloud-native systems

• Strong knowledge in performance analysis, infrastructure monitoring, and capacity planning

• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product Managers to align business goals with implementation results.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field.

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products

• Continuous learning and development opportunities

• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment

• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

Job ID: 22231

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