Performance Engineer in Test
Performance Engineer in Test
REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA
C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) is a leading provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai
C3 AI is seeking both Jr. and Sr. Performance Engineers in Test to work with Engineering, Product Development, QA and Customer Service to help drive the implementation of our end-to-end Performance, Scalability and Reliability (PSR) practice.
This is a hands-on role in which you will design and code comprehensive end-to-end PSR solutions, improve the productivity of our development teams and bring standardization and best practices to our processes.
Reporting to the Director of Quality Assurance Automation Engineering, you will be part of a team of highly skilled dedicated Performance Engineers in Test to ensure that we are shipping the highest quality software possible. This is a great opportunity to work with cutting edge AI and ML technologies.
Your Responsibilities:
- Become a C3 AI Suite and C3 AI SaaS application expert to thoroughly understand all use case scenarios.
- Drive the PSR for all C3 AI suite of products at all levels: front end, back end, APIs and database.
- Own, maintain and develop the performance testing infrastructure including benchmarks, test frameworks, CICD, log monitoring and reporting.
- Generate, model and maintain very large amounts of synthetic test data to profile normalization, ingestion, analytics and Machine Learning models.
- Find, document, triage and track performance defects through resolution. This includes troubleshooting, root cause analysis and code profiling.
- Provide release signoff and performance reports to Senior Management.
- Partner and collaborate closely with the engineering, operations and solution architecture teams on performance initiatives, including tools and performance evaluation projects.
- Establish and enforce PSR best practices across the company.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field; graduate degree in STEM.
- Professional software development experience with JavaScript, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages.
- Working knowledge of Agile software development methodology.
- Outstanding team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field; graduate degree in STEM.
- Hands-on software development and troubleshooting experience with JavaScript and Java.
- Experience in UI and API test automation.
- Experience building and deploying enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of common machine learning techniques, Python programming and performance testing methodologies.
- Experience in time-series data analysis and normalization.
- Hands-on work with both relational databases and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or containers.
- Prior professional tenure as a performance engineer role, including experience with APM (such as Dynatrace, Appdynamics), Jmeter, Jenkins and/or Splunk.
- Build and release management experience.
C3 AI provides a competitive compensation package and excellent benefits including:
- Competitive salary, generous stock options, 401K, medical, dental, and vision benefits. At the office, we offer a fully stocked kitchen with catered breakfast and lunch, table tennis and pool table, free membership at our on-site gym, Friday evening social hours with food, drink and music and a fun team of great people.