Computer Scientist/Programmer, Performance Analysis Team

At ITA Software, the Performance Analysis Team will focus on evaluating and improving our industry leading products’ performance capabilities. Team members will be responsible for testing orthogonal properties of our code such as latency, throughput, scalability, and security. They will also be responsible for instrumenting our source code to facilitate large-scale automated debugging and testing. This position is cross-listed under Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Support the initiation, planning and execution of performance analysis and the creation of in-house automation test tools.
• Understand and instrument production code.
• Recognize critical technical, architectural, project, and business issues and escalate them to management.
• Develop deep product knowledge to test and analyze performance changes to customer-critical features.
• Collaborate effectively across the diverse team of QA engineers, automation experts and analysts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical field or equivalent work experience. Senior positions require a Master's or doctoral degree, or similar experience.

Special Knowledge/Skills Required:

• Experience in performance analysis of complex systems
• Exceptional programming skills and willingness to code.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze existing systems utilizing various profiling tools and approaches.
• Demonstrated track record of applying computer science to practical problems (though not necessarily travel or transportation problems).
• Experience with automation strategies and building custom tools.
• Highly self-directed, a strong individual contributor and a strong team player.
• Understanding of statistics and data analysis is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, especially listening; proven ability to elicit requirements and translate those into definable tasks.
• Resourceful; able to switch among multiple projects quickly; able to remain calm in the face of uncertainty and change; highly responsible.

How to Apply
If you are interested in this position, please send your resume to us via this link. An ITA Software recruiter will review your qualifications and contact you if there is a fit with our needs.

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