Our client, a global financial services firm, is hiring a VP-level Application Performance Engineer in New York. You’ll join a team that watches how business-critical applications perform and catches problems before they hit the business. It’s a hands-on engineering seat for someone who likes digging in and figuring things out.
What you’ll do
- Build out observability across apps, infrastructure, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud, with Dynatrace as the main platform
- Write Python (and some Java) automation for monitoring setup, configuration, alerts, dashboards, and CI/CD
- Build scripts and tools that collect performance metrics, process logs, and connect monitoring to internal systems
- Troubleshoot Java apps in production: JVM metrics, garbage collection, memory, logs, and exceptions
- Set up end-to-end transaction monitoring and distributed tracing to find bottlenecks, dependencies, and root causes
- Help extend monitoring to AI applications, models, and agents
- Test new observability tools and explain your recommendations to engineering teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience, plus a bachelor’s or master’s in CS, software engineering, information systems, or similar
- Strong Python, especially for automation
- Solid Java background (J2EE or similar), including how Java apps behave in production
- Docker, Kubernetes, and general DevOps practices
- Working knowledge of databases like Oracle or MongoDB
- Git, Agile, and testing frameworks like JUnit or Zephyr
- Awareness of common web app security vulnerabilities
- Self-starter who communicates and documents clearly
Nice to have
- Dynatrace or similar monitoring tools (not required)
- Exposure to AI or LLM monitoring (not required)
Performance Engineer in New York City Metropolitan Area at Atlas Search
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 2 days ago.