Senior Software Engineer

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 performance-focused Mid to Senior level Software Engineer at Appian you will help build tools to solve complex performance problems and tackle our most challenging technical problems alongside other brilliant engineers. 

About you:

• You have 4+ years experience building and delivering software applications.
• You possess deep knowledge about the JVM, including Garbage Collection and Heap Dump analysis, Java, Application Server technologies (like Tomcat and Spring), and Databases.
• You have expertise in Linux System fundamentals (including Threading, Context Switching, etc.) and Linux basics.
• You have experience with programming languages like Java, Python, and/or other Interpreted Languages (C or C++ considered).
• You are passionate about Performance Optimization, identifying and building new tools and technologies to solve complex performance problems.
• You are familiar with CI/CD experience, Test Automation, and tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes/Infrastructure.
• You have experience with Monitoring/Debugging tools, Observability, and Tracing, including specialized tools like Locust.
• You are prepared for Production Issue Debugging and Rapid Response Team scenarios.
• 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:

• Develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems at the intersection of Engineering and IT in a small scrum team.
• Leverage a modern and diverse array of tools including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, 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 solving performance issues.
• Enable automated performance testing through creation of libraries, frameworks and infrastructure.
• Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence

Preferred Experience Level:

• 4+ years of relevant experience, building and delivering software applications.

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field

This role is based at our ​h​eadquarters in ​McLean, Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.