Sr. Performance Engineer
MarkLogic based in San Carlos, Ca is revolutionizing the way
organizations leverage Big Data. More than 250+ customers in
industries including financial services, healthcare, government, and
media are driving revenue and growth through transformative Big Data
Analytics enabled by MarkLogic products, services, and partners. The
FAA, Simon & Shuster, Zinio.com, Jet Blue, and McGraw-Hill are some of
our key customers. Gartner Research predicts that data will grow 800
percent over the next five years, with 80 percent of it being
unstructured. Unstructured information is Big Data. It's that simple.
And the Big Data movement and the market demand for software to solve
Big Data problems is fueling MarkLogic's growth and momentum.
MarkLogic solutions are designed for Big Data customers. We have
petabyte scale customers in production today. With the explosion of
unstructured information and Big Data, organizations are struggling
with both the management and ability to make this information
actionable using existing technologies. MarkLogic is the only company
that allows customers to leverage unstructured information and Big
Data at both speed and scale. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon
Valley with field offices in Austin, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New
York, and Washington DC. For more information or to download a trial
version, go to www.marklogic.com
We are seeking a highly motivated and meticulous Engineer to help
MarkLogic and our Customers better understand the performance
characteristics of our product. This position reports to the Director
of Support and Performance in the Engineering group.
MarkLogic Server is a complex, multi-threaded transactional system; it
is a platform on which large-scale content applications are built. It
is installed in equally complex data center environments complete with
load balancers, caching servers and high-performance Ethernet and
storage networks. The Performance Engineer will be responsible for
devising tests that characterize how the server performs given
real-world use cases and common operating environments. A working
understanding of the performance impact of all the components in the
operating environment is crucial. These include application caching,
filesystem caching, processor caching, network latency, storage
subsystem latency, resources contention at all layers, etc.
The Performance Engineer will work with server architects to identify
as well as resolve system performance bottlenecks and disseminate
information about performance test results and derived best practices
to a wide and varied audience. You will become an expert in the
architecture of MarkLogic Server and the optimization of its
applications.
Must Have
· Experience with characterizing and solving multi-threaded,
transactional systems performance problems
· Expert in lab work, applying the scientific method, devising
fair tests
· Able to develop software tools necessary to conduct performance work
· Detail-oriented communicator about technical problems, their
causes and their solutions
· Experience with using a software or hardware performance
benchmark harness
· Query optimization experience (e.g. tuning and optimizing
SQL or MapReduce)
· Experience with collecting, graphing and interpreting system
health statistics
Nice to Have
· Programming experience with Java, XQuery or C++
· Experience with creating a performance benchmark for a
software or hardware product
· Experience with tuning Linux, Solaris or Windows for
particular workloads
· Experience with configuring and tuning storage systems for
particular workloads
· Customer-facing experience, able to discuss technical
material with lay audiences
· Working knowledge of XML and XML-related software tools
MarkLogic is a company on the move. We hold a commanding position in
the market when it comes to server technology dealing with massive
amounts of unstructured data. We offer a highly competitive salary
with bonus and equity in our firm. Please send your information to
Herb.Deitz@MarkLogic.com
