Appian
Senior Software Engineer
$125K–$250K
McLean, Virginia +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Location
- McLean, Virginia
Appian Corporation - US - Experience
- 4+ years of professional experience building, delivering, and optimizing software applications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Build performance tools and automated tests, monitor and optimize Appian’s distributed platform, and investigate production performance issues.
What you'll do
- Build internal diagnostic tools and automated performance-testing frameworks.
- Use observability systems to monitor and optimize platform behavior; profile and tune runtime performance and database queries.
- Respond to customer performance investigations and production incidents, performing root-cause analysis.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of professional experience building, delivering, and optimizing software applications.
- Programming experience in Java, Python, or other interpreted/compiled languages (e.g., C/C++).
- Linux fundamentals, including threading, memory management, and context switching, plus shell scripting.
Nice to have
- JVM performance expertise, including garbage collection tuning, heap dump analysis, and Java application servers.
- Experience with observability, load testing, CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, or incident response tools.
Pay
$125,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, C/C++, Linux, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Grafana
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