Senior Performance Engineer

What You'll Do

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Design, develop, and execute comprehensive performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies for distributed cloud applications.

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Define performance goals, SLAs, and success criteria for critical platform services and customer-facing applications.

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Build and maintain automated performance testing frameworks and pipelines integrated with CI/CD workflows.

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Analyze application, database, API, and infrastructure performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations.

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Collaborate with Software Engineers, Architects, and SRE teams to improve system scalability, resiliency, and efficiency.

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Conduct capacity planning exercises and provide data-driven recommendations for infrastructure scaling.

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Create performance dashboards, monitoring solutions, and reports to provide visibility into system health and trends.

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Validate performance impacts of new features, architecture changes, and production releases.

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Lead root cause analysis for performance-related incidents and proactively identify areas for improvement.

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Mentor engineers and establish performance engineering best practices across the organization.

What You'll Bring

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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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7+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, or Site Reliability Engineering.

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Strong hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as

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JMeter

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Gatling

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LoadRunner

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Locust

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Experience testing high-scale SaaS platforms, web applications, APIs, and microservices architectures.

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Strong understanding of

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Distributed systems

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Cloud-native architectures

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Performance tuning methodologies

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Scalability patterns

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Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS.

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Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or Go.

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Strong knowledge of SQL and database performance tuning concepts.

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Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk, or similar.

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Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

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Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.