Careers
Why work at AppDynamics?
It’s all about the market. The market for technologies to help web operations teams manage their mission-critical production applications is estimated to be $2B annually and is projected to grow to $5B annually by 2013. New highly distributed, cloud-based applications aren't going anywhere--in fact, new ones are emerging every day.
We’re growing like crazy. Our fast-growing startup has already emerged as the leading innovator in enabling mission-critical Java web applications to run in today’s cloud computing environments. Our products are already in use at more than 2,000 companies, and customers include thought-leading companies like Netflix, Priceline, Tivo, and Taleo. We were recognized by Gartner as a Cool IT Operations Vendor for 2010, and we ranked in the Top 10 products at Cloud Connect 2010.
We believe that innovation is the key to survival and success. Our key technologies, Transaction Flow Mapping™ and Cloud Orchestration, position us as the leading solution that provides end-to-end business transaction visibility, rapid troubleshooting, and dynamic application scaling in modern distributed architectures.
Our team rocks. Our executive and management team is composed of leading innovators from companies such as Wily, BMC, Oracle, Sun and Vontu, and we're backed by top-tier VC firms Greylock and Lightspeed.
Location, location, location. Our company is located in the SOMA district of San Francisco close to CalTrain and MUNI.
We take culture seriously. For AppDynamics, it's all about the customer. But we also believe in letting integrity, honesty, and professionalism guide our actions. We believe in having fun. We believe in being passionate about our work, while being highly collaborative. We don't believe in dogma; we embrace change and innovation. We don't believe in ignoring our mistakes, but in learning from them. We don't blame others, but treat one another with respect and dignity at all times. We thrive on self-initiative, drive, and entrepreneurship. And most of all, we believe in taking our game to the next level--always.
If any of this resonates with you, you're very likely to fit in well with us. So please, check out our:
Open Positions
To apply, send an email to careers@appdynamics.com
List of Current Open Positions:
Software Engineering Manager
Senior Software Engineer/JAVA Guru
UI Engineer / Sr. UI Engineer
About The Role
We are seeking a highly respected, self-motivated, hands-on engineering manager to lead and manage a group of 5-8 exceptional software engineers while contributing heavily to the platform’s architecture and development. The ideal candidate will be highly adaptive, creative, and impassioned; and inspired by the challenge of building the next generation of application performance management tools.
This job requires strategic thinking, planning, and providing leadership and expertise throughout the development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of increasing responsibility, and success building and leading technical team(s) in an agile development environment. In addition, he/she will be equally comfortable developing the application from concept to launch with a history of projects that were delivered on time and in budget.
Responsibilities:- Provide technical and architectural expertise, leadership, and vision while aligning the product roadmap with a customer-centric engineering process
- Deliver on initiatives from the business plan and technology strategy leveraging architectural principles for appropriate systems integration and reuse
- Provide daily management of objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, risk and performance management of all reporting staff
- Assign areas of ownership, and ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources
- Design, implement and maintain complex, multiple product modules/sub-systems
- Collaborate with members of engineering and sales teams to identify and define solutions for customer requirements
- Deliver product demos, and assist with proof of concepts and client implementation to ensure customer success
- Help define application standards, conventions and best practices
- Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues
- Researches new technology or development tools to remain informed of current technology
- Provide career development, and mentoring to team members
- Maintain high morale and motivate engineers
- Bachelors degree in CS / EE from a top school
- 10+ years of proven experience developing and architecting large-scale, multitiered applications based on architectural best practices
- Guru-level skills in Java is a must
- Experience designing and building complex, high-volume Java/J2EE, JPA and/or Hibernate environments is a must
- Prior start-up company experience is a must
- Experience building Java based infrastructure products and frameworks like application servers, message bus, performance management tool etc
- Strong strategic thinker with an ability to communicate your vision
- Prior start-up company experience is a must
- Past success at working in a fast pace product development startup environments
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Good SQL skills desired
- C# /.NET experience is good to have
Senior Software Engineer/JAVA Guru
About The Role
AppDynamics is seeking a Java Guru to join our founding team of exceptional developers to innovate in the area of application management solutions for the enterprise and cloud environment. This is a ground-floor opportunity with great rewards for a strong Java Technologist. The ideal technologist will be a big picture thinker with an exceptional ability to develop market-changing software that will delight the customers. The ideal programmer will have a strong background in building scalable products and enterprise applications in Java, J2EE and .NET technologies with good experience on database design.
Responsibilities:- Performs complex product design activities on systems software which require extensive research and analysis
- Deliver product demos to prove to prospects that we are the best fit solution for their needs
- Performs design, implementation and maintenance of complex, multiple product modules/sub-systems
- Participates in product design meetings
- Performs complex bug verification, release testing and beta support for assigned products
- Researches problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions to the problems
- Conducts unit testing and integration testing for functionality and limits
- Assist in performing on-site client work on complex systems
- Design and implementation in order to meet project objectives
- Documentation of development work
- Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues.
- Researches new technology or development tools to remain informed of current technology
- BS Degree in CS / EE from a top school
- 5+ years of proven experience developing large-scale software applications
- 3+ years of experience in Java/J2EE and object-oriented development
- Prior experience building Java based infrastructure products and frameworks like application servers, message bus, performance management tool etc.
- Prior start-up company experience is a must
- Past success at working in a fast pace and collaborative environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Highly effective interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- C# /.NET experience is good to have
About The Role
Design, architect, and build our UI using Adobe Flex/Flash, ActionScript 3.0, JavaScript, and Java.
Responsibilities:- Smart software engineers that have experience building large-scale complex systems and working on project teams
- Passionate about UI design and development
- Experience building web applications in JavaScript/AJAX, HTML, and CSS
- Experience with or willingness to learn Flex and ActionScript 3.0
- CS background is a must (preferably, from a top tier school)
- Very strong OO design and development skills
- Good visual design sense and creative drive
- Motivated individuals that want to be part of a fast pace startup
- Experience with desktop or mobile UI development and frameworks (Cocoa, WPF/Silverlight, Android)
- Proficiency with visual design tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Catalyst, etc)
We are looking for a full time team member in our San Francisco offices – no offshore consultants or recruiters please.
