Lead Performance & Observability Engineer
Intercontinental Exchange8 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own performance engineering strategy, testing standards, tooling, and reporting across multiple critical platforms.
- Lead deep-dive performance investigations of CPU-bound, multithreaded Java systems across JVM, operating system, and hardware layers.
- Perform scalability modeling, capacity projections, critical-path segregation, and validation of architectural performance improvements.
- Design and operate observability frameworks covering metrics, distributed tracing, continuous profiling, health scoring, alerting, and Grafana dashboards.
- Build custom metrics exporters and automated post-test analysis pipelines that correlate load-test and observability data.
- Design performance test harnesses and production-representative workloads, and tune JVM thread pools, garbage collection, and heap allocation.
- Act as a technical liaison across performance, development, infrastructure, operations, architecture, and project management teams.
- Mentor peers and establish standards for validating AI-generated performance analysis and tooling before production use.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or Java development in high-volume, low-latency transactional systems.
- Deep expertise in JVM internals, including heap dumps, thread dumps, garbage collection logs, and memory profiling.
- Proficiency with Java and scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, or Linux shell.
- Experience with scalability analysis, critical-path analysis, event-driven or message-based architectures, and performance validation.
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks covering metrics, distributed tracing, and continuous profiling.
- Experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, custom metrics exporters, dashboard governance, and alerting rules.
- Experience with JMeter, Gatling, or custom load-generation harnesses and representative production workloads.
- Experience building automated reporting pipelines that combine load-test results with observability data.
- Experience with Kafka, IBM MQ, or equivalent event-pipeline technologies.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency with AI coding and analysis tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Cursor for performance-related tasks.
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About Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange operates global exchanges and clearing houses, offers fixed income and commodities trading platforms, and sells market data, listings, and mortgage technology to financial institutions and lenders. Its revenue comes from transaction and clearing fees, data subscriptions, listings, and software. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Atlanta, it owns the New York Stock Exchange and ICE Mortgage Technology, and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ICE.