Java Platform Performance Engineer – Remote

About the role

Binance is seeking a Java Platform Performance Engineer to enhance the scalability, reliability, and speed of its distributed backend systems. This fully remote position focuses on deep performance analysis, JVM tuning, and building tooling that empowers engineering teams to deliver high‑quality services at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize performance of large‑scale Java applications across application, middleware, JVM, and infrastructure layers.
• Investigate production bottlenecks using profiling, tracing, heap and thread analysis, and drive end‑to‑end optimizations.
• Design and execute performance validation tests covering throughput, latency, scalability, and stability.
• Improve Java runtime performance through JVM tuning, garbage‑collection optimization, and memory‑leak investigations.
• Optimize supporting components such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and other distributed services.
• Build internal platforms and automation tools for performance testing, diagnostics, observability, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and DevOps teams to enhance system reliability and production readiness.

Required profile

• 1–5 years of experience with Java, distributed systems, and performance engineering (exceptional new graduates are welcome).
• Strong understanding of JVM internals, multithreading, and concurrent programming.
• Hands‑on experience diagnosing performance issues through heap analysis, thread analysis, profiling, and GC tuning.
• Familiarity with large‑scale system architecture and production troubleshooting.

Required skills

• Java
• JVM internals and tuning
• Multithreading & concurrency
• Profiling & GC optimization
• MySQL
• Redis
• Kafka