Software Engineer

The Role

The Core Performance engineering team is looking for a software engineer to build and maintain performance tests and performance test frameworks that underpin our performance work at Anaplan, as well as advocate for strong software engineering principles for performant software. Performance is at the heart of everything we do at Anaplan, so we need someone who loves performance as well as advocating for the performance of the platform.

Your Impact

• A Strong Engineer: You’ve worked on large codebases before, and know SOLID principles of software engineering
• Accountable and self-directed: You hold yourself to a high standard, work independently, and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Ownership mindset: You see problems through to resolution and treat platform performance as your responsibility.
• Scale-oriented thinking: You look beyond individual fixes, create solutions that work across teams, and enable adoption through influence rather than mandate.
• Bias toward automation: You actively seek to eliminate repetitive work through automation and build durable solutions rather than manual processes.
• Data first: You are data-first, opinion second: you care about the quality of data provided for any decision, and you hold yourself to the highest standards of data quality
• You care about quality: You’re an advocate for quality in everything you do, and review code with quality in mind as well as advocate for performance of the platform
• You get stuck in quickly: Anaplan moves fast, and you move faster to keep up with what’s going on and how you can get involved
• Strong Convictions, held loosely: You advocate and are passionate, but are completely open to other voices and opinions

Your Skills

• Solid software engineering experience, working on large and complex systems
• Experience designing and building performant systems through sound engineering and architectural decisions
• Experience of delivering code into production and maintaining that code, working across both cloud and on-premise environments
• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance issues in production systems

Tech we use

• Java: We write many of our performance tests in Java, that compiles into jMeter
• jMeter: We performance test in jMeter
• Jenkins: We write our pipelines for performance testing in Jenkins, with deep integration into our “Core Server” delivery
• Grafana: Observability both of our pipelines and internal performance tests, as well as in production for performance of our customer