Associate Principal Engineer, Performance, Site Reliability
Posted 2ds ago
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Job Description
Principal Performance and Reliability Engineer in a rapidly growing Digital Product Engineering company. Focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and resiliency for cloud-based projects.
Responsibilities:
- Understand novel system architectures, pinpoint problem areas
- Design modern scalable cloud-native architecture capable of transacting billions of online transactions every day
- Work closely with management, product owners, developers and quality engineers to understand product requirements and design appropriate performance and reliability test plans
- Provide accurate scoping, clear strategies, and milestones for performance and reliability tests
- Communicate status, risks to test complete dates, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams
- Coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning guides
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of Java/.NET and SQL/NoSQL
- Hands-on experience with Locust, JMeter, Gremlin and other performance and reliability tools
- Performance engineering experiences with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects
- Experience with performance testing, analysis, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise software - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills
- Understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization, concepts of multi-threading, cache, memory management, Java Virtual Machine, JIT
- Working knowledge of HTTP load generation / measurement software (e. g. LoadRunner, JMeter, TestMaker, Silk Performer, etc)
- Working knowledge of APM and Observability tools like Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus and Grafana
- Working knowledge of AJAX, HTTP, REST, JSON
- Working knowledge of database tuning and administration (e. g. Oracle, DB2, Oracle AWR / STASPACK)
- Working knowledge of operating system design / tuning / tools (e. g. Linux, Solaris, OProfile, VTune)
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development budget
- Home office setup allowance
- Global team events


















