Principal Engineer (GCP)

Company Description

Technology is our how. And people are our why. For over two decades, we have been harnessing technology to drive meaningful change.
 
By combining world-class engineering, industry expertise and a people-centric mindset, we consult and partner with leading brands from various industries to create dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences that drive innovation and transform businesses.
 
From prototype to real-world impact - be part of a global shift by doing work that matters.

Job Description

• Define and drive the performance engineering strategy for cloud-native applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Serve as the subject matter expert for application performance, scalability, and observability across distributed systems.
• Analyze and optimize application performance across microservices, APIs, databases, and high-volume transaction workflows.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks impacting user experience, including patient data retrieval, historical data loading, and real-time clinical workflows.
• Design, execute, and oversee performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing using industry-leading tools.
• Leverage statistical analysis and performance metrics to identify trends, forecast system behavior, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), database, and infrastructure teams to implement performance improvements.
• Lead and mentor a team of 4–5 Performance Engineers, establishing best practices, technical standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive performance testing automation and integration within CI/CD pipelines.
• Present performance assessments, risks, capacity planning recommendations, and optimization strategies to technical leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Champion a performance-first engineering culture throughout the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, or Application Performance Optimization.
• Expert-level experience designing and executing enterprise-scale performance testing strategies.
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including cloud observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributed cloud-native architectures, microservices, REST APIs, and containerized applications.
• Experience analyzing application performance across databases, application servers, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with one or more performance testing tools such as:
  • OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise (LRE)
  • Apache JMeter
  • Gatling
• Strong knowledge of performance monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience interpreting large performance datasets and applying statistical analysis to identify trends and capacity constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical findings to both engineering teams and executive leadership.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical teams in fast-paced, high-availability environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience optimizing applications running on Google Cloud services, including Cloud Spanner.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Experience implementing performance testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with modern observability platforms such as Google Cloud Operations Suite, Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, or Grafana.
• Experience with capacity planning, resiliency testing, and production performance monitoring.

Additional Information

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package, share plan, company performance bonuses, value-based recognition awards, referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching, global career opportunities, non-linear career paths, internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects, rotations, internal tech communities, training, certifications, coaching, online learning platforms subscriptions, pass-it-on sessions, workshops, conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours, employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme, access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities, hobby clubs and interest groups