Performance Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION: Design and develop solutions to improve performance and scalability benchmarks to evaluate performance and diagnostic tools to help identify and root cause performance issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Must Have:

• Experience debugging and troubleshooting application/system issues.
• Experience with application performance testing Java Virtual Machine.
• Performance Tuning System Tuning Troubleshooting.

Nice To Have:

• Apache Spark Cloud Computing Hadoop Scala Strong in Python or Java System Design.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science Engineering or another related discipline.
• Experience in performance measurement and analysis.
• Strong analytical diagnostic and problemsolving skills with the ability to work in a team environment.
• Experienced in performance test tools such as (JMeter Grinder AWS Taurus etc.)
• Strong background in computer architecture and operating system internals.
• Strong programming skills (Python C Java etc.)

Basic Qualifications (Software Engineer):

• Minimum of 6 years experience in Performance Engineering or 6 years of strong scripting automation background.
• Experience benchmarking applications with skills in modelling the system under load and tuning of the technology stack.
• Experience in working with Distributed Systems Java J2EE Databases.
• Experience in scripting/programming with Java Scala or Python or Shell.
• Expertise in analyzing troubleshooting and resolving complex issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze product/service performance and scalability across various hardware and software configurations.
• Develop sound methodologies for accurate performance comparisons.
• Understand the products indepth to be able to identify bottlenecks in code/design/architecture.
• Rootcause performance problems and implement solutions to resolve them.
• Study workload characteristics to create a balanced suite of performance workloads.
• Develop standard benchmarks for performance measurement.
• Develop and automate performance measurement and data analysis tools.
• Develop performance diagnostics tools in the products.
• Work with customers/partners to root cause and resolve performance issues.
• Develop a Performance Test Strategy and scripting and perform root cause analysis.