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JOB TITLE: Distinguished, Software Engineer:Runtime Performance & Continuous Profiling
The Distinguished Engineer joins the Orchestration Platform team to lead the vision, strategy, and architecture of an enterprise-wide continuous profiling and runtime performance platform. This role involves designing low-overhead diagnostic frameworks to observe and optimize execution efficiency across a massive containerized ecosystem. You will build tools for execution introspection, CPU/memory efficiency, and thread dynamics while ensuring compliance with global financial and data security standards. Key responsibilities include defining long-term architecture, mentoring engineers, and implementing advanced technologies like Async Profiler, JFR tracking, and eBPF-powered frameworks. You must possess deep mastery of the HotSpot JVM, including garbage collection and JIT compiler dynamics, alongside Linux kernel internals, process schedulers, and memory maps. The work addresses systemic performance bottlenecks and infrastructure cost-savings within highly regulated environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Define the long-term architectural vision for an enterprise-wide continuous profiling platform across multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
Lead the technical evaluation and deployment of advanced introspection technologies like Async Profiler, JFR, and eBPF-powered frameworks.
Establish end-to-end security wrappers and data-sanitization pipelines to ensure compliance with PCI-DSS and global data security standards.
Convert profiling telemetry into automated scheduling enhancements and resource utilization metrics to drive cloud capacity savings.
Act as the primary authority on runtime internals to guide architectural trade-offs and standardize profiling patterns across engineering domains.
Mentor the next generation of principal engineers on advanced diagnostics and high-scale platform architecture.
Design low-overhead diagnostic frameworks to monitor and optimize code execution across hundreds of thousands of cores.
What we're looking for
Obtain a Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 6 years of software engineering experience.
Alternatively, possess 8 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Demonstrate low-level mastery of the HotSpot JVM (Java 17+), including garbage collection, JIT compiler dynamics, and native memory management.
Possess hands-on experience building or scaling continuous profiling solutions using AsyncGetCallTrace, Java Flight Recorder (JFR), or Linux perf_events.
Maintain a deep understanding of Linux kernels, process schedulers, and experience deploying eBPF bytecode via node-level DaemonSets.
Provide proven strategic technical leadership in defining architecture for mission-critical platform tools and executing large-scale technology rollouts.
Possess a Master's degree in a related field and 4 years of software engineering experience (preferred).
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