At Appian, we're not only about building awesome software, but also about growing our culture of passion, energy, and innovation; great people, great software! As a Senior Software Engineer - Performance at Appian you will help build the next generation of our core low-code application development platform and help tackle our most challenging technical problems alongside other brilliant engineers. What is Appian? It's a low-code application platform that lets business people build powerful enterprise web and mobile apps with flexible, visual models instead of clunky custom code. About you: You have 6+ years experience building and delivering software applications You're passionate about software performance, possess deep knowledge about the JVM and Linux kernel You're passionate about identifying and building new tools and technologies to solve complex performance problems You're a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough system problems You have experience in a CI/CD environment in AWS or continuous integration systems, like Jenkins You thrive on solving labyrinthine problems within large, high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems You hold a BS in Computer Science and/or equivalent years of experience writing code How You'll Contribute: In a small scrum team you will develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems at the intersection of Engineering and IT Leverage a modern and diverse array of tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, and Kubernetes to ensure that our platform is built with performance in mind, and that our customers applications are performant. Assist with customer performance issue investigations and remediation. Build custom performance tooling to assist with performance issues. Automate functional testing as well as testing for performance and security Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination. #LI-AD1