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Staff SW Engineer - Performance Engineering

US - Austin, TXFull-time2026-11-02 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, low-latency payment processing systems and services for global customers.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Performance Engineering)

Builds

Scalable, highly-available payment processing infrastructure and services

Domain

Financial Technology / Payments

Required skills

Java, Python, Unix/Linux OS internals, Load testing (LoadRunner, JMeter), APM/Observability (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, OPNET), Distributed systems, Cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Microservices

Preferred skills

C++, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres), Containerized microservices, Root cause analysis, Server-side development

Technologies

Java, Python, LoadRunner, JMeter, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, OPNET, AWS, GCP, Azure, Jenkins, Maven, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Create application and infrastructure performance plans/models; Evaluate and execute load tests to stress critical applications; Design and implement solutions for Always On availability; Automate monitoring, deployment, and incident response; Collaborate with architects to ensure proper metrics instrumentation; Optimize code and suggest performance improvements; Support issues within SLAs.