3 months ago
Base Salary
$125k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop elegant software solutions for complex technical problems in a small scrum team.
- Build custom performance tooling to investigate and resolve performance issues.
- Create libraries, frameworks, and infrastructure for automated performance testing.
- Use Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes to support platform performance and observability.
- Assist with customer performance issue investigations and remediation.
- Respond to production problems and build automation to prevent recurrence.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building and delivering software applications.
- Deep knowledge of the JVM, garbage collection, heap dump analysis, Java, application server technologies, and databases.
- Experience with Tomcat, Spring, Linux systems fundamentals, Java, Python, and/or other interpreted languages; C or C++ is considered relevant.
- Experience with CI/CD, test automation, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, debugging, observability, tracing, and Locust.
- Experience debugging production issues and participating in rapid-response scenarios.
- BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience writing code.
- Ability to solve complex problems in large, high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $125,000—$250,000 USD, with possible discretionary bonus and potential equity eligibility.
- 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, and health savings account contributions.
- Employee referral bonus program, learning and development resources, mentorship, Appian University training, leadership programs, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement.
- Employee affinity groups, Employee Assistance Program with mental health support, Employee Stock Purchase Program, retirement or pension plan, wellness dollars, and family-forming benefits.
- Based at the McLean, Virginia headquarters with an expectation of working in the office five days per week.
About Appian
Appian builds a low-code platform for process automation, case management, and data orchestration, used by large enterprises and government agencies to design and run mission-critical workflows. It sells subscriptions and services for cloud and on-premise deployments, spanning BPM, RPA, process mining, and AI-enabled capabilities. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Appian is a public company listed on NASDAQ.