Job Description: DAX Technologies - Software System Performance Engineer

DAX Technologies is an exciting software startup, providing innovative solutions for the telecommunications industry. With a friendly, informal culture, and substantial growth opportunities, DAX provides an ideal environment for talented software performance engineers. The position is located in Matawan NJ at the company's headquarters. The person working this position will be responsible for work needed to assure that the DAX InTouch provides sufficient scalability and performance for our customers. This person would benchmark our current system, develop models of our current architecture, identify system bottlenecks and manage architectural changes that would improve system performance. The system performance engineer works with all other members of the team to assure that new product features continue to operate within the required performance bounds, and system testing is set up to validate the system performance. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and maintain system capacity models
• Research customer usage patterns and identify key system performance requirements
• Benchmark system performance, evaluating alternate hardware and software architectures.
• Review all system architecture changes and assess system capacity impacts.
• Produce system sizing spreadsheets for presales activities.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 5 years experience working with performance modeling of the following technologies:
  • Unix/Linux Operating Systems
  • Java
  • Oracle/SQL Programming
    • SQL queries, PL/SQL knowledge
    • query optimizations, query plans
    • experience with AWM, ADDM
  • Network
    • TCP/IP, routing, interface configuration, DNS, firewall, proxy, remote access
    • web servers (apache, tomcat)

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to multitask
• Good communications skills
• Self-starter
• Independent thinker, but good team player

MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

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