Performance Engineer (SRE)

Do you have a passion for performance optimisation? Are you excited by challenges engineers face in building and operating cloud-native distributed systems? Do you have experience in building industry-leading software products? Do you thrive in fast-paced, fast-growing environments? Are you ready for a change? If so, there’s a great opportunity waiting for you as a Performance Engineer here at Cloudsmith.

The Opportunity that lies ahead

In this crucial role, you will be leveraging advanced telemetry and Application Performance Management (APM) tools to monitor and improve the performance of our cloud-based services. Your expertise in black box performance testing and capacity planning will be instrumental in ensuring that our systems are not only robust but also scalable to meet future demands. You will be part of an engineering team building great products our customers love.

Our Team

We are four squads responsible for building application capabilities and the underlying platform upon which Cloudsmith is founded. We operate in a highly collaborative environment, where people with different skills come together to make things happen. We have a modern approach to CI/CD, deploying several times per day, and we support a global set of customers who are engineers like us.

Our Technology Stack

We are cloud-native, born in AWS, and embrace their services across our platform. Our technology stack includes Python, Django, ECS, Postgres, Kinesis, Cloudfront, Flink, DBT, Elastic Search, Lambda, Amazonmq, Terraform, Postgres & Clickhouse. Tooling includes VS Code, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry, Locust, Slack, Linear, Notion and CircleCI.

Signs you may be a great fit

We realise that not everyone will have every experience and expertise in every possible thing. Still, if you have many of the following, we might be a great place where you can have high impact and progress your career.

1. Telemetry and Monitoring: You know how to use advanced telemetry tools such as Datadog or Honeycomb to gather detailed performance data, providing insights into the operational characteristics of our platforms.
2. APM Tools: You can leverage APM tools effectively to monitor real-time system performance and preemptively address potential issues.
3. Performance Testing: You know how to conduct thorough black box performance tests to identify potential inefficiencies and bottlenecks in our systems.
4. Optimization: You enjoy identifying system enhancements, with the potential of improving performance and reducing latency.
5. Capacity Planning: You can conduct capacity planning to ensure our infrastructure meets current and future operational demands efficiently.
6. Collaboration: You enjoy working closely with development, operations, and product teams to align performance goals with business objectives and customer needs.

About Us

Cloudsmith is the world’s most powerful artifact management platform. Software organizations of all sizes use Cloudsmith to protect and manage their software supply chain. Running at cloud scale in a multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Cloudsmith hosts repositories that proxy and cache public open-source software (OSS) indexes, providing a platform that organizations can use to scan artifacts for security vulnerabilities, licensing issues, and malware, as well as implement policies that govern the use of artifacts and act as a dependency firewall. We support over 30 formats, with broad support for languages, containers, and operating system libraries. Cloudsmith is built for the enterprise, supporting modern security protocols and providing advanced features for observability, integration, and orchestration. Customers use Cloudsmith as part of their CI/CD build chain, as well as for developer-native distribution of their own artifacts and binaries to end-customers.

We help our customers manage and secure their software supply chain, and improve their developer experience. We are by developers, for developers. Our culture operates with openness and transparency, driven by our ambition to build a great company. We enjoy working with great people and customers. We learn, support one another, and we’re growing. Now is a great time to join us.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary and Equity Package
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Annual Leave and Flexible Working Policies
• Professional Development Budget for Conferences and Training
• Dynamic, Innovative, and Supportive Work Environment

Health and Wellness

Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer parental leave and health benefits that can cover you and your dependents up to 100%. We also offer flexible family-friendly working policies.

Personal Growth

You will have an enormous scope to learn new skills alongside your colleagues, and your continued professional development is essential to us because it's important to you. We will support you with budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.

Remote First

Like our product, we’re fully distributed and operate remotely. Our headquarters is in Belfast, and we come together monthly for internal conferences and when it makes sense to collaborate in-person. We also hold all-hands offsites in Belfast three times per year, with guest speakers and team activities. On a day-to-day basis, most Cloudsmithers work remotely, and rely heavily on our collaboration tools which include Slack, Zoom, Notion and VS Code Live Share.

About Equal Opportunity

We’re an equal opportunities employer who is proud to nurture a workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnic groups and we do not discriminate on age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within our workforce.