Senior Performance Engineer

Who we are
We’re Redis. We built the product that runs the fast apps our world runs on. (If you checked the weather, used your credit card, or looked at your flight status online today, you’re welcome.) At Redis, you’ll work with the fastest, simplest technology in the business—whether you’re building it, telling its story, or selling it to our 10,000+ worldwide customers. We’re creating a faster world with simpler experiences. You in?

As a Senior Performance engineer, you will be a part of the performance team in the Testing and Automation Group, which offers a huge amount of influence and ownership over the performance of the fastest NoSQL distributed system on earth, supporting billions of ops/sec at sub-millisecond latency with true linear scalability.

You will have the independence to identify, raise awareness, and address all matters that impact Redis’s performance and its ecosystem.

Our ideal candidate is a strong individual that loves to work with a diverse team of bright and ambitious people and enjoys getting to the bottom line of the subjects – there is no stone left unturned on our performance work. You’ll enjoy the process of fine-tuning performance, and squeezing the most out of every product. Similarly, you understand that good/bad communications (in terms of performance) are always backed by unbiased numbers. You understand the importance of deterministic data-driven decisions.

If you are passionate about technology and would love to join an exciting, tech-savvy, fast-growing international organization that offers a creative environment with many opportunities for personal and professional growth, then this is the right challenge for you.

What will you do?

Work on the next-generation technologies, products, and solutions of Redis that touch the performance/observability pillars. We use python for developing our performance platform, and use Go, C, Java and Rust for the benchmark tools and products. High proficiency in python is a must. If you miss some of the other languages we will foster your knowledge internally.
Drive end-to-end performance of our product as an individual contributor., and support the contributions of other members to the community and enterprise projects with performance numbers, performance how-tos, or the means to properly assess the performance impact of the change they’re proposing.
Maintain and foster the OSS contribution on all benchmark/monitoring related tools like memtier_benchmark, redis-benchmark, vector-db-benchmak, ycsb, go-ycsb, ftsb, OpenMessaging Benchmark Framework, and others.
Foster performance and observability STANDARDS around Redis related technologies, like the cross-companies redis-benchmarks-specification.
Develop/Maintain performance monitoring infrastructure tools like redisbench-admin, and it’s integration with perf, pprof, vtune, and ebpf tooling, and others.
Conduct benchmarks and publish benchmark papers.

What will you need?

Experience in developing, planning and executing functional performance and load testing at various interface levels
Experience in benchmarking and tuning mission-critical storage systems and distributed systems
Experience in planning, replicating, and pursuing a performance regression/improvement investigation, quantifying the performance gains using statistical, profiling and tracing data from tools like perf, pprof, vtune, and ebpf (or other equivalent).
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across teams
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Proficiency in verbal and written English

Extra great:

Experience in developing and using Redis or other NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, CouchBase and Cassandra
Experience in developing big data platforms, such as Spark and Hadoop
Contributions to the open source Redis and other open source projects

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