Sr. Software Performance Engineer

About this role

Job Description

The Role
We’re seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Performance Engineer in development to own Overall Performance of our systems and solution, leading optimization of software and systems to improve site speed, support scalability, reliability and stability. Analyzing metrics based on access to different monitoring tools and working with the respective engineer development teams and architects to design and implement solutions to improve overall site and systems performance (including but not limited to Web Sites, APIs , Database queries and definition of caching strategies) and lead execution of performance and load tests to validate results and prevent performance degradations.


You will be responsible for helping lead our engineering efforts through planning, design and architecture, execution, and ramp. As a technical leader on the team, you will be able to help mentor less experienced engineers, build strong relationships with technical leaders on other teams, and facilitate a strong team culture, applying best practices on Performance Engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Own the performance observability for production and lower environments, identifying and acting on concerning trends.
• Develop competency across our complete web technologies stack (client, framework, and services)
• Weigh architectural trade-offs and apply synchronous and asynchronous design patterns
• Monitor, assess and analyze the holistic performance of the application with benchmarking tools.
• Identify bottlenecks, lead root cause analysis, collaborate with developers, automate processes and ensure proper tools to ensure systems meet performance requirements from design to deployment.
• Own and enhance performance coverage by consulting with developers to identify areas for improvement and expansion.
• Investigate and diagnose performance issues to identify the root cause of the problems.
• Clearly document performance results and share actionable...