Rally software is seeking a motivated engineer with a passion for using data to gain insights into real world systems performance and behavior of our SaaS products. You will provide information to the rest of the company about the health and use of our SaaS application, the readiness of releases and the configuration and impact of new architectural components. This role will be part of a highly collaborative team that is integral to the technical decisions and architectures for the company.
Rally’s Systems & Performance team gathers, analyzes and reports on the use and performance of our SaaS application from a real time data warehousing application running on top of a multi-terabyte Hadoop cluster. We also work closely with developers and operations to provide feedback on the state of the release and validate the performance of proposed architecture related changes.
What you will be doing:
Build and extend the Hadoop ecosystem to:
Operate and extend the data warehouse to support new sources and realtime reporting.
Tune the performance of the warehouse application to support an ever increasing deluge of test and production data.
Develop interfaces for developers to access and understand system data quickly and effectively.
Analyze system performance to uncover important use cases, overall product dynamics, product usage, and potential improvements.