Thursday 31 July 2014

Performance Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Performance Engineer | Pinterest | San Francisco, CA


Performance Engineer

Location

San Francisco

Description

We're looking for a performance engineer to help improve s overall site optimization and speed with a focus on web and mobile performance.

Responsibilities
  • Provide in-depth web performance data analysis (patterning, trending, clustering, matching) using both internal and third party tools.
  • Develop practical performance management best practices and software mechanisms for overall engineering team and stack.
  • Establish benchmarks for performance across the stack and measure/monitor them.
  • Develop and execute experiments and initiatives for performance optimization in partnership with respective teams (for ex. mobile, global caching etc.)
  • Evangelize practice of performance engineering at Pinterest.
  • Become the primary engagement point with our CDN vendors.

Requirements
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Programming skills in a modern web programming environment (Java or Python)
  • Proficient in http, tcp, dns and related protocols for performance optimization.
  • Proficient in performance management practices such as GC tuning, TCP acceleration/aggregation,
  • Work well with others in a influencing approach including vendors.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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