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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. At Appian, we’re not only about building awesome software, but also about growing our culture of passion, energy, and innovation — great people, great software! As a performance-focused Mid to Senior level Software Engineer at Appian you will help build tools to solve complex performance problems and tackle our most challenging technical problems alongside other brilliant engineers.
Job Responsibility:
Develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems at the intersection of Engineering and IT in a small scrum team
Leverage a modern and diverse array of tools including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Grafana, ElasticSearch, and Kubernetes to ensure that our platform is built with performance in mind, and that our customers' applications are performant
Assist with customer performance issue investigations and remediation
Build custom performance tooling to assist with solving performance issues
Enable automated performance testing through creation of libraries, frameworks and infrastructure
Respond to and resolve emergent problems
write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
Requirements:
4+ years experience building and delivering software applications
Deep knowledge about the JVM, including Garbage Collection and Heap Dump analysis, Java, Application Server technologies (like Tomcat and Spring), and Databases
Expertise in Linux System fundamentals (including Threading, Context Switching, etc.) and Linux basics
Experience with programming languages like Java, Python, and/or other Interpreted Languages (C or C++ considered)
Passionate about Performance Optimization
Familiar with CI/CD experience, Test Automation, and tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes/Infrastructure
Experience with Monitoring/Debugging tools, Observability, and Tracing, including specialized tools like Locust
Prepared for Production Issue Debugging and Rapid Response Team scenarios
Thrive on solving labyrinthine problems within large, high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems
B.S. in Computer Science and/or equivalent years of experience writing code
What we offer:
Health coverage
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support