Senior Performance Engineer

About the role

A skilled Senior Performance Engineer with over 12 years of experience in performance engineering and application performance analysis. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in optimizing system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and improving overall user experience in distributed and microservices environments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end performance analysis across application, database, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Troubleshoot application performance using AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog, JFR, and YourKit.
• Perform JVM tuning, analysis, thread management, database query optimization, caching, and microservices performance optimization.
• Design and execute load, stress, soak, endurance, and scalability testing.
• Develop performance test scripts using JMeter, Gatling, and K6.
• Analyze performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and overall user experience.
• Perform frontend performance analysis using Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools.
• Optimize Core Web Vitals, web rendering, CDN, and browser performance.
• Build dashboards and observability solutions using AppDynamics, Quantum Metric, ELK, Grafana, and related tools.

Requirements

• 12+ years of Performance Engineering experience
• AppDynamics (preferred)
• New Relic / Datadog
• RUM and APM
• AWS and Azure
• AWS services: ECS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, API Gateway, ALB
• JVM Performance Tuning
• Garbage Collection / Thread Analysis
• SQL & NoSQL database optimization
• Distributed caching
• Microservices and cloud-native applications
• JMeter, K6, Gatling
• Core Web Vitals
• Lighthouse / Chrome DevTools
• ELK Stack / Grafana
• Quantum Metric
• Performance monitoring, observability, and dashboarding