What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Performance Engineer position at Masterapp Labs?
Job Details
Job Title: Software Performance Engineer
Location: Austin, Texas
Job Description:
- Analyze and evaluate application and system performance, focusing on the data tier in cloud and on-prem environments.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimizing code, queries, and system configurations.
- Simulate traffic, measure component behavior, and generate performance reports (AWR, ASH, ADDM).
- Analyze Oracle wait events and raw data to correlate with system behavior.
- Predict system performance under load and conduct root cause analysis for slowdowns or failures.
- Present performance findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience working in an agile sprint team.
- Familiarity with JIRA software.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Experience with healthcare data (e.g., HL7, PII, PHI).
Other Requirements:
- Vendor must perform criminal background checks before submission.
- Interviews conducted via Microsoft Teams.
- Vendor to comply with all HHSC policies and cybersecurity training.
- Total estimated hours not to exceed 1550 hours.
- Services are expected to start on March 24, 2025, and end on August 31, 2025.
- Hybrid work schedule: 4 days remote, 1 day onsite (Wednesdays).
- Must be located locally in Texas.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
| Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. | ||
| Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
| 8 | Required | Experience in Analyzing and evaluating application performance across multiple tiers |
| 8 | Required | Experience with identification and solution implementation for performance and scalability bottlenecks and issues |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Oracle wait interface and event analysis |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Performance tuning of large Oracle databases in AWS (50 TB) |
| 8 | Required | Experience with large Oracle Exadata databases and clusters |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Single node non-Exadata Database tuning |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Linux shell scripting, SQL tuning and session tracing. |
| 8 | Required | Experience with AWR, ASH, ADDM generation and analysis |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Oracle AWR Raw data analysis and interpretation. |
| 8 | Required | Experience Extrapolating system behavior under representative load to predict system behavior under full load/stress. |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Presenting complex results, analysis, and metrics to a diverse audience of technical and non-technical personnel. |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and issues. |
| 8 | Required | Knowledge of Oracle internals pertaining to database performance |
| 8 | Required | Experience with understanding of application behavior, performance, and interaction patterns with DBs in relation to performance and scalability. |
| 8 | Required | Experience with extrapolating application and data tier metrics to explain system behavior. |
| 8 | Required | Experience with Technical writing and diagramming skills, including proficiency with modeling and mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Erwin), and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and MS Project. |
| 8 | Required | Experience working with multiple teams concurrently, being able to prioritize and complete work on time with high quality |
| 5 | Preferred | Experience on an agile sprint team |
| 5 | Preferred | Experience with JIRA software |
| 4 | Preferred | Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or Business or equivalent experience. |
| 2 | Preferred | Prior experience with an HHS agency |
| 2 | Preferred | Prior experience working with PII or PHI data |
| 2 | Preferred | Prior experience working with HL7 data |
| 2 | Preferred | Prior experience in the Healthcare Industry |
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