Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

Summary

Guidewire's development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented Application Performance Engineer to performance test, troubleshoot and optimize our software solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry. You will have the opportunity to make an impact and contribute to a sophisticated application suite of products that generate over $980 million dollars of revenue annually, mission-critical to 100+ enterprises serving more than a million users.
Our SAAS offerings support large scale data volumes, heavy server load, and complex business logic running in the cloud. Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You'll work alongside intelligent colleagues who've checked their egos at the door.

Job Description

Successful Performance Engineers at Guidewire typically have:

• Hands-on experience authoring and executing performance tests, troubleshooting, and optimizing Java code

• Curiosity and internal motivation to discover multiple root causes to complex technical problems

• Excellent communication skills: speak your mind and defend ideas based on merit, yet humility and hunger to learn from others

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

 
Key technical qualifications include experience with:

• Performance and development work in Java (5+ years experience)

• Load generation, APM, and profilers (Gatling, JMeter, Datadog, AppDynamics, YourKit, JProfiler)

• Relational database persistence (e.g. Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle)

• Cloud services, Caching, Queues, Application Servers (AWS, Guava, Redis, tomcat, etc.)

• CI/CD tools (TeamCity, Bitbucket, Gradle, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus)

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your role as well as use data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate has a Computer Science degree or equivalent and shares our core values: collegiality, integrity, and rationality.  See and hear from our employees at https://careers.guidewire.com/  

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $115,000 - $173,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.