Lead Performance Engineer

About the Role 

We are looking a Lead Performance Engineer for marketing and eCommerce platforms, focusing on speed, scalability, and reliability across cloud, microservices, and containerized environments. The role involves designing and automating performance tests within CI/CD pipelines, analyzing system bottlenecks using tools like New Relic, AWS Logs, and X-Ray, and creating observability dashboards for real-time insights. you will mentor engineers within the CoE, champion continuous improvement and AI-driven innovation, and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to optimize system performance. This position offers the chance to shape engineering strategies, elevate customer experiences, and stay at the forefront of industry developments. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborates with product and technical teams to analyze, design, and translate non-functional requirements. 

• Evaluates architecture, deployment, user base, and workloads to recommend the most effective performance engineering strategy. 

• Ensures system speed, scalability, and reliability while adapting CoE best practices and standards from shift-left to shift-right. 

• Analyzes slowdowns in frontend and backend, identifies root causes, and collaborates with teams for optimization. 

• Hands-on experience with JMeter, LoadRunner and other tools to test system reliability. 

• Use New Relic, AWS X-Ray, and logs to track system behavior and find issues early. 

• Builds observability dashboards using LGTM and implements distributed tracing and instrumentation. 

• Contribute actively to Performance Engineering CoE, Continues Improvement, Innovations, and Research  

• Optimize Cloud and Large-Scale Systems – Improve efficiency of cloud, microservices, and containerized environments.  

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and leadership to ensure performance goals are met. 

• Proven ability to work in a team and communicate effectively with all stakeholders 

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience with AWS cloud platforms and technologies. 

• Experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, Sitespeed.io, NewRelic , AWS CloudWatch. 

• Exposure with, Xray, GitHub, Grafana, etc,. 

• Knowledge of chaos engineering principles and practices. 

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. 

• Ability to work with Java, Python, or similar language 

• Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related field. 

• 10+ years of experience in performance engineering 

• Strong experience of performance testing & engineering tools and methodologies. 

• Experience with performance profiling, monitoring, and tuning of complex systems. 

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. 

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. 

Why Join Us? 

• Work in a cutting-edge technology environment with a talented and passionate team. 

• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement. 

• Comprehensive benefits package and competitive salary. 

• Be part of a company that values diversity, inclusion, and innovation. 

If you are a dedicated performance engineering leader looking for an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and help us drive performance excellence!