Job Details

About GSPANN

Headquartered in California, U.S.A., GSPANN provides consulting and IT services to global clients. We help clients transform how they deliver business value by helping them optimize their IT capabilities, practices, and. With five global delivery centers and 2000+ employees, we provide the intimacy of a boutique consultancy with the capabilities of a large IT services firm.

Role: Performance Architect

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 12 months+

DETAILS:

We are looking for a Performance Architect with strong hands-on experience in troubleshooting complex performance issues across performance and production environments.

The ideal candidate should be able to identify root causes, provide actionable recommendations, and drive fixes across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in Perf and Production environments
• Perform end-to-end root cause analysis across application, Kubernetes, cloud, networking, database, and OS layers
• Recommend and implement performance improvements and scalability solutions
• Collaborate with development, platform, SRE, and infrastructure teams to drive fixes
• Analyze load test results, production telemetry, and system metrics
• Define performance baselines, SLAs, and capacity planning models
• Drive proactive performance engineering and resiliency practices
• Introduce automation and AI-assisted troubleshooting workflows

Required Skills

• Strong experience in cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes performance (pods, autoscaling, scheduling, resource limits, networking)
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, LB, latency, TLS, connection reuse, routing, TCP dump analysis)
• Database performance tuning (SQL/NoSQL, indexing, connection pools, query optimization, thread dump, heap dump analysis)
• OS-level performance analysis (CPU, memory, IO, thread contention, GC, kernel limits)
• Experience troubleshooting distributed microservices architectures
• Hands-on with observability tools (APM, logs, metrics, tracing)

Good to Have

• Prior software development experience
• Experience with performance testing tools (BlazeMeter, JMeter, k6, Gatling, etc.)
• Familiarity with AI tools for troubleshooting and automation
• Chaos engineering / resiliency testing experience
• Experience with caching layers (Redis, CDN, edge)
• Retail / eCommerce domain expertise (traffic spikes, peak events, checkout flows, cart, search, promotions)

Ideal Candidate

• Strong problem solver who can work across teams
• Comfortable debugging in production
• Able to balance hands-on fixing + architecture recommendations
• Experience driving performance improvements at scale

Working at GSPANN

GSPANN is a diverse, prosperous, and rewarding place to work. We provide competitive benefits, educational assistance, and career growth opportunities to our employees. Every employee is valued for their talent and contribution. Working with us will give you an opportunity to work globally with some of the best brands in the industry.

The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination based on their physical or mental disability status. GSPANN is an equal opportunity employer for minorities/females/veterans/disabled.