Sr Software Performance Engineer

Software Performance Engineers benchmark high-demand SAS solutions across on-premises and cloud environments to validate scalability and performance. Together they provide technical insights benchmark assets and best practices that support global Sales Marketing and customer engagement efforts.

Benchmark Team

• Collaborate with R&D Consulting Sales and Pre-sales to define customer-like benchmark scenarios for small medium and large environments.
• Translate project objectives (test cases data samples user personas proper execution methods etc.) into structured project plans including deliverables and timelines.
• Execute benchmarks using technical expertise and cross-functional collaboration; analyze results and refine testing strategies to ensure accuracy and repeatability.
• Author performance briefs best practices and white papers using internal/external tools; support sales with performance insights.
• Proactively identify and resolve project roadblocks; maintain schedule alignment with stakeholders.
• Support team success by reviewing peer work sharing feedback and fostering collaboration.

Technical Skills

• Performance testing of large-scale distributed applications
• Tools: Playwright/Locust/Python Jmeter and other performance testing tools a plus
• Programming & Scripting: Python SQL SAS Bash/Kornshell PowerShell and other languages a plus
• Monitoring & diagnostics: Prometheus Grafana ESM NMON FIO PerfMon SysInternals IOSTAT IOMeter NETSTAT VMSTAT TOP (AppDynamics Dynatrace Datadog a plus)
• System administration (Linux Windows Server) Storage systems (SAN NAS NFS Storage protocols (FCoE Fibre Channel CIFS JBOD)
• Cloud & Containerization: Experienced with Azure AKS AWS GCP and Kubernetes.