Senior Performance Engineer

Job Description

Lead/Sr Performance Engineer: L3 5-7 yrs. exp

• 5+ years of progressive technical experience in Software engineering, Performance Engineering, Site-Reliability and DevOps
• Be a performance test advocate and advisor to the various engineering teams
• Extensive experience with various kinds of load testing tools
• Experience conducting performance testing to ensure system capacity, reliability, and scalability
• Ability to understand and translate test requirements into a testable and correct design
• Ability to develop a test plan as required
• Strong hands-on experience with JMeter & LoadRunner
• Knowledge of performance monitoring tools
• Hands-on experience analyzing reports and documenting observations to identify bottlenecks
• Investigates & reports project issues by communicating & working with various departments including Development, Product, Project Management, Systems & Application support groups, Network Engineering, etc., as well as other project teams
• Using workload information and performance results to identify and understand performance bottlenecks and provide tuning recommendations
• Contribute actively to Performance Engineering team s development and testing processes
• Communicate and collaborate across levels, functions, and organizational boundaries
• Experience with Performance test framework development and automation
• Experience working with large scale distributed systems and cloud technologies

Required Skills:

Experience with some of the following technologies and services:

• Cloud technologies (especially AWS)
• Load testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, NeoLoad etc.
• Application Monitoring Tools - New Relic, Google Analytics, CloudWatch
• Experience with Continuous Integration environments

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to work with Java, Python, or similar language
• Knowledge of Virtualization & Containerization (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Demonstrate excellent Resiliency Engineering skills and solid understanding of distributed systems to improve reliability and availability