Software Performance Engineer Salary in the United States
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How much does a Software Performance Engineer make in the United States? The average Software Performance Engineer salary in the United States is $93,452 as of October 30, 2019, but the salary range typically falls between $82,427 and $104,178. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target. View the Cost of Living in Major Cities

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Lead Software Engineer

Platinum Performance - San Francisco , CA

Today Platinum Performance serves most equine veterinary practices across the United States and ... We are a small San Francisco-based team of Software Developers, Designers and Product Managers

SmartJobs - 3 days ago

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Theery -

Senior Software Quality Assur ance 3 -6 month Contract Software Quality Assurance * Bachelor ... Drive key quality performance metrics based on prescribed KPI's * Utilize quality tools and ...

LinkedIn - 7 days ago

Software Developer

Performance Software - Bothell , WA

At Performance we are looking for passionate Software Developers to design, develop and install software solutions for state of the art safety critical systems, especially in the areas of avionics ...

ZipRecruiter - 7 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

Cybercoders - Oakland , CA

Senior Software Engineer If you are a Senior Software Engineer with experience, please read on ... performance parameters and assess application performance -Work on core data structures and ...

CyberCoders, Inc - 7 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Cybercoders - San Diego , CA

Improve visibility, resiliency, capacity, and performance of our platform Develop our deployable ... with software engineers to ensure new features and functionality will be supported by our ...

CyberCoders, Inc - 4 days ago

Senior Application Software Engineer (Test Automation)

Centene Corporation - Rancho Cordova , CA

Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers. * Contribute to ... Conduct root cause analysis and advanced performance tuning for complex business processes and ...

Centene - 5 days ago

What does a Software Performance Engineer do?

Software Performance Engineer

Develop software to enhance existing 2D and 3D motion tracking solutions, image-based data capture, and 3D reconstruction of both rigid geometric models and high-fidelity models of human bodies and faces.

September 10, 2019

Build and enhance infrastructure and framework and provide actionable metrics to help understand performance issues and address them proactively.

September 10, 2019

Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.

September 10, 2019

Collaborate with a diverse team of Earth system and computational scientists, both within CESG and across DOE Labs and partner universities, to address performance issues in E3SM and its components on selected computing platforms.

September 10, 2019

Understand and performance test the APIs, GRPC, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed system problems.

September 10, 2019

Support the test leads by creating detailed performance test tasks for the work plan and providing accurate status of these tasks.

September 10, 2019

Participate in the design and development of the core AIVA and Speech platform components to ensure that performance is considered as a core design goal.

September 10, 2019

Provides support to the business by responding to user's questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies).

September 10, 2019

Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create working relationships with cross-functional teams.

September 10, 2019

Lead an initiative to apply chaos engineering to our platform verification efforts by designing and conducting controlled experiments to understand the impact of localized failures or performance degradations in a large, complex, distributed real-time system.

September 10, 2019

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