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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• k6
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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.