Sr Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

Job Description

ScopeWe are building a highly resilient and scalable world-class Warehouse Management System (WMS) SaaS product, utilizing modern technologies. As a Senior Enterprise Performance Architect, you will play a crucial role in guiding the team, ensuring optimal application performance, identifying potential bottlenecks, and driving enterprise-level performance strategies.Our Current Technical Environment

• Cloud: Azure (preferred) or GCP, AWS, or another cloud service provider
• Database: MongoDB
• Monitoring & Observability tools: Azure Insights, ELK
• Containerization: Kubernetes
• Streaming Technologies: Kafka, EventHub
• API: REST APIs
• Programming languages: Java, Python (good to have)
• Performance testing tools: Gatling (mandatory)
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) testing tools: Experience with HA/DR testing and relevant tools is required

What Youll Do

• Lead and guide the Performance Engineering team in all activities at an enterprise level, driving strategic initiatives to enhance system scalability and reliability.
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and best practices in performance engineering.
• Design and develop complex test scripts for performance, integration, and longevity/endurance testing, ensuring robust test coverage for critical workloads.
• Independently execute full-fledged performance tests, analyze trends, and optimize workload models to achieve optimal system efficiency.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across large-scale distributed systems, leveraging in-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructure, databases, and application architecture.
• Carry out performance tuning activities across databases, applications, and infrastructure, proactively identifying areas for improvement.
• Analyze performance test results, log defects, and share actionable insights with engineering and leadership teams to drive performance optimization.
• Perform deep-dive analysis of thread dumps, GC logs, heap dumps, and other diagnostic data to identify and resolve complex performance issues.
• Prepare and review detailed performance test reports with clear insights and recommendations for architectural and infrastructural improvements.
• Define and implement enterprise-wide performance testing strategies, developing frameworks to assess risk and mitigate performance-related challenges.
• Develop and maintain custom test automation utilities and frameworks, enabling efficient and scalable performance testing.
• Support enterprise capacity planning, performance tuning, and system recommendations, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct Proof of Concepts (POCs) for evaluating and introducing new performance testing and observability tools, driving innovation in performance engineering.
• Review and refine engineering practices, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and performance engineering principles.
• Create and maintain enterprise-wide checklists and governance frameworks for test preparation, execution, and monitoring, improving testing effectiveness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (developers, SRE, AS&S, and support) to drive performance excellence across WMS, ensuring a seamless and optimized user experience.

What We Are Looking For

• 15-19 years of experience in performance engineering, with enterprise-level architecture expertise.
• Bachelors or masters degree in engineering or technology.

Below are skills which we are looking for this role:Required Mandatory Skills:

• Expert in Gatling
• Experience with HA/DR testing and relevant tools
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB
• Strong expertise in Windows/Linux/Unix environments
• Hands-on experience with ELK stack
• Experience with Kafka/EventHub

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of REST APIs
• Experience with Azure (preferred), GCP, AWS, or another cloud service provider
• Supply Chain/Warehouse Management System domain knowledge
• Python/R scripting (good to have)
• It is good to have Warehouse Management System (WMS) experience.

Our ValuesIf you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours Find out here: Core Values.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.Locations: Bangalore

Keyskills :
performance engineering enterprise architecture performance testing cloud infrastructure database optimization java testing tools linux api mongodb rest python windows unix