Manager, Performance Testing

Tableau Software is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, with nearly 100% annual sales growth. Tableau makes fast analytics and visualization products that help people see and understand data of any size or format. The company is on its way to becoming a large, market-defining company in the business intelligence industry and is next in a long line of high profile Stanford spinouts (e.g., Google, Yahoo, VMWare). Customers of all sizes use our products, from Fortune 500 companies, to video game designers, to scientists in the jungles of Central America, to high school principals. Our software is for anyone with data and questions! Additionally, Tableau’s web products (www.tableaupublic.com) are used by bloggers, journalists, and major media web sites to share data online as interactive visualizations. Check out our products at: www.tableausoftware.com/products/tour.

Tableau’s culture is casual yet high energy. We are passionate about our product and loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, freakishly friendly customer service, and making a difference in the world. Tableau offers exceptional professional and financial growth potential.

What you’ll be doing…

As Manager of the Performance Testing team, you will manage teams of dedicated software engineers focused on performance testing in a dynamic and fast-paced environment at a company that prides itself on delighting customers and building great products.
You will be responsible for identifying, tracking and reporting performance regressions and improvements across multiple release lines and for helping to foster a performance culture within the company. You will look forward to future needs as we expand our product and platform offerings, and ensure your teams are creating robust and flexible solutions to our performance testing needs. You will also actively participate in the team’s testing activities and will take great pride in the technical contributions and advancements you and your team make to the company’s performance culture and product quality.

If you are the ideal candidate you have significant experience leading engineering teams and are passionate about high-quality software development and the technology that supports it. You absolutely love testing the performance complex software products and always look for ways to improve testing methodologies. In addition, you have a special fondness for things that are simple, elegant and effective. Some of the things you and your team will be doing include…

+ Creating, improving, and maintaining new and existing frameworks
+ Analyzing source code and implementing new tests
+ Scalability, Throughput and Load Testing against server
+ Helping Drive a Performance Culture across the entire company
+ Creating statistically-significant data through a rigorous, scientific approach
+ Designing new systems and frameworks to meet new and future needs

Who you are…

+ Leader. You have 10+ years experience leading engineering teams, as well as excellent recruiting and mentoring skills, essential to growing a highly effective, fun, and happy team during a period of rapid (and sustained) growth.
+ Highly Technical. You have an excellent understanding of programming languages, operating systems, network level infrastructure and database concepts.
+ Domain. You have experience testing and profiling large-scale C++ systems and highly scalable Java and/or Ruby server systems that back dynamic, highly interactive Web experiences.
+ Problem Solver. You have a love of performance testing, tuning and analysis through a rigorous scientific approach


To apply, please visit: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA11/ats/careers/requisition.jsp;jsessionid=7049629ECF578BF099DDE612A5A91967.NA11_primary_jvm?org=TABLEAU&cws=1&rid=950

To learn more about Tableau’s culture, please visit: http://careers.tableausoftware.com

Tableau Software is an equal opportunity employer.