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Senior Performance Quality Engineer

Dragos, Inc.
Hanover, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 2/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

Overview

Dragos is on a relentless mission to defend industrial organizations that provide us with the necessities of modern civilization; running water, functioning electricity, and safe industrial working environments. As the market leader in ICS / OT Cybersecurity, we are dedicated to arming our customers with best-in-class technology, threat intelligence, and services to protect their systems as effectively and efficiently as possible. We're a remote-first culture with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. We're looking for mission-oriented teammates who embody our core values of authenticity, transparency, and trust. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join a mission that can save the world!

About the role :

As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will establish performance metrics for our networked applications, document any deviations, and suggest improvements. You will design and execute tests to verify these metrics, simulating real-world and worst-case customer scenarios. Your goal is to gather data and develop a data-driven path forward, ensuring we deliver high-quality, high-performance products.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve the performance and scalability of Dragos products
  • Research industry best practices for application performance tuning, document and propose changes, test, and iterate to create an optimal set of performance configurations for different use cases and workloads
  • Analyze performance results and metrics to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for optimizations
  • Develop and enhance test frameworks and build virtual systems to isolate dependencies
  • As needed, perform root cause on performance and scalability support requests and contribute to product code to alleviate these issues
  • Read platform software code and understand the internal workings of the product
  • Define and develop tooling for load simulation, test automation, performance measurement and reporting

Qualifications

  • 5 years of proven experience in performance engineering
  • Strong Linux skills in administration and performance optimizations
  • Software development skills; specifically in Python.
  • Experience in performance tuning microservices and networks, various levels of application code, database layer (relational and non-relational databases), network stack, and operating system
  • An understanding of Java and the JVM, or a strong desire to learn
  • Experience with administration, monitoring, and tuning of big data application stacks and pipelines, i.e., Elasticsearch, Mongo, Airflow, RabbitMQ
  • An ability to go as deep down the stack as necessary to understand a system's performance.
  • Strong knowledge of operating system internals is a major plus
  • Comfortable with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and GIT in terms of both tools and systems administration
  • Compensation

  • Base Salary : $142,000
  • Competitive equity package
  • Comprehensive benefits plan
  • Dragos is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local laws. All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.

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