Lead Performance Engineer
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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!
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