Binance

Java Platform Performance Engineer (Performance Optimization) Fully Remote

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9 months ago
Sydney, Australia +7 moreEntry Level / Mid Level

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and optimize large-scale Java applications across application, middleware, JVM, and infrastructure layers.
  • Diagnose production performance issues using profiling, tracing, heap analysis, thread analysis, and code analysis.
  • Design and execute performance validation for distributed systems, including throughput, latency, scalability, and stability testing.
  • Improve Java runtime performance through JVM tuning, garbage-collection optimization, thread analysis, and memory-leak investigation.
  • Optimize MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and other distributed middleware components.
  • Build internal platforms and automation tools for performance testing, diagnostics, observability, and capacity planning.
  • Partner with backend engineers and DevOps teams to improve reliability and production readiness.
  • Review Java code for performance risks and assess AI-generated code for performance and correctness.

Requirements

  • Approximately 1–5 years of engineering experience, with exceptional new graduates also welcome to apply.
  • Strong Java programming skills and a solid understanding of JVM internals, multithreading, and concurrent programming.
  • Experience diagnosing performance bottlenecks through heap analysis, thread analysis, profiling, and garbage-collection tuning.
  • Familiarity with distributed-system architecture and production troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Spring Boot and microservice architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with middleware such as Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, or ZooKeeper.
  • Understanding of MySQL performance optimization and slow-query analysis.
  • Experience with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience building internal engineering platforms or developer tooling is highly valued.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code is preferred.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work-from-home arrangement, with arrangements potentially varying based on business-team work.
  • Competitive salary and company benefits.
  • Opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
  • Autonomy on unique, fast-paced projects in a global organization.
  • Collaboration with world-class talent in a user-centric, flat-structure organization.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaDockerJavaKubernetesLinuxMySQLRabbitMQRedisSpring Boot

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About Binance

5,001-10,000 employees

Binance is the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with a product suite that includes the world's largest digital asset exchange and much more. Trusted by over 200 millions of users worldwide, the Binance platform is dedicated to increasing the freedom of money for users, and features an unmatched portfolio of crypto products and offerings, including: trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more. Posts are not directed towards UK users.

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