Software Engineer, Stability and Performance

As part of our rapid growth we are looking for a Stability & Performance Engineer to join our team! 

At Axonius, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our performance and stability engineers to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand our customer deployments, we are currently seeking experienced stability and performance engineers to deliver insights from massive scale data in real time. Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

Objectives of this Role:

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build infrastructure and systems for monitoring and analyzing complex issues
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline
• Programing experience for at least 5 years (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
• Proven experience working with Linux
• Research skills and ability to understand complex issues
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
• Ability to come into the NYC office at least 1 day a week

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with monitoring and related technologies - Grafana, Prometheus, APM
• Proven knowledge of Mongo internals 
• Past experience working with Redis and Celery

Our culture and benefits:

• Remote-first culture. We have offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Austin, São Paulo, and Washington DC, but the majority of our employees are working from home across the US and internationally. 
• Great people. Our people aren’t just great professionals, they are great people. We are all here to support each other, ready to help and do what’s best for the entire company. 
• A focus on career growth. We love seeing our people grow into new roles and work hard to ensure everyone sees and can realize a long term career path here at Axonius. We offer ongoing growth opportunities, including mentorship programs, a learning and development stipend, and company-wide courses..
• Next level benefits. 100% coverage of 2 different tiers of employee healthcare premiums. Dental, vision, and 401k match.
• Top-notch family leave options. 17 weeks of parental leave for primary caregivers and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers. Additional time off for important life events like marriage, birth of a grandchild, and more!
• We give back. Corporate social responsibility partnerships, employee giving opportunities , and volunteer time off.
• Competitive compensation. Market rate salaries, bonuses, or commissions. Stock options for all full time employees with equity refresh opportunities. 
• DEI focused. Highly supported Employee Resource Groups (ERG). Executive-level diversity and inclusion goals. Training, events, and mentorship options.

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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options, attractive benefits, and an annual bonus.

Annual Salary Range (does not include bonus or equity)$180,000—$200,000 USD

A little more about Axonius: 

Axonius transforms asset intelligence into intelligent action. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence. Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius covers the lifecycle of millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

Axonius is named to the 2025 Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies and the 2024 Forbes Cloud 100. Axonius is recognized with the Great Place to Work Certification™ and for two years in a row, Axonius was ranked Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Axonius has been cited as the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in history by revenue.

At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

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