Senior Software Engineer - Performance Engineer

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values -based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! The Role The Core Performance engineering team is looking for a senior software engineer to build and maintain performance tests and performance test frameworks that underpin our performance work at Anaplan, as well as advocate for strong software engineering principles for performant software. Performance is at the heart of everything we do at Anaplan, so we need someone who loves performance as well as advocating for the performance of the platform. Who are you? A Strong Engineer: You've contributed to and impacted large codebases before, and have deep principles of software engineering Accountable and self-directed: You hold yourself to a high standard, work independently, and take responsibility for outcomes. Ownership mindset: You see problems through to resolution and treat platform performance as your responsibility. Scale-oriented thinking: You look beyond individual fixes, create solutions that work across teams, and enable adoption through influence rather than mandate. Bias toward automation: You actively seek to eliminate repetitive work through automation and build durable solutions rather than manual processes. Data first: You are data-first, opinion second: you care about the quality of data provided for any decision, and you hold yourself to the highest standards of data quality You care about quality: You're an advocate for quality in everything you do, and review code with quality in mind as well as advocate for performance of the platform You get stuck in quickly: Anaplan moves fast, and you move faster to keep up with what's going on and how you can get involved Strong Convictions, held loosely: You advocate and are passionate, but are completely open to other voices and opinions Your qualifications Core Engineering Experience Deep software engineering experience (7+ years) designing and operating large-scale, complex systems in production environments Proven ability to architect and evolve high-performance systems through sound engineering practices, architectural leadership, and data-driven decision making Strong track record of delivering, owning, and continuously improving production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence Strong understanding of infrastructure across both cloud and on-premise environments, including machine types, resource allocation, and infrastructure bottlenecks Experience working within Kubernetes environments; hands-on experience debugging, scaling, or performance testing Kubernetes-based systems is highly valuable Experience working with infrastructure as code and ephemeral environments to enable reliable and repeatable system testing Expertise diagnosing complex performance issues in distributed systems and leading cross-team efforts to resolve systemic bottlenecks Experience working with high-performance data infrastructure such as Redis or similar in-memory data systems Performa ... (truncated, view full listing at source)